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Walter R. and Eliza Smith Moore House

historic house in North Carolina, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ19987168 ↗
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Walter R. and Eliza Smith Moore House is a historic home located near Clayton, Johnston County, North Carolina. It was built circa 1835. It is a two-story, four-bay, single-pile, vernacular Federal style heavy timber frame dwelling. It sits on a brick foundation, is sheathed in weatherboard, and has a two-story front portico. Also on the property is a contributing meat house (c. 1835).

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

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This entry incorporates text from “Walter R. and Eliza Smith Moore House” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.