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- Colonial and Regulator years · 1680–1774
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Francis Nash builds his house on West Tryon Street
Francis Nash built the house now called the Nash-Hooper House on West Tryon Street in Hillsborough in 1772, on land bought from Isaac Edwards. After his death in 1777 it passed through other hands to William Hooper in 1782.
People: William Hooper
Subject: Nash-Hooper House
- Revolution and early republic · 1775–1799
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William Hooper makes the Nash house in Hillsborough his home
The house Francis Nash built in 1772 became the home of William Hooper, signer of the Declaration of Independence, in 1782. William A. Graham lived there in the 1860s.
People: Francis Nash · William A. Graham
Subject: Nash-Hooper House
- Antebellum and Civil War · 1800–1865
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A sitting-room wing and a separate kitchen are added at the Nash-Hooper House
A one-story frame sitting room, later the dining room, was built on a log base at the rear of the Nash-Hooper House, giving it an L shape. A detached frame kitchen went up just east of the house at the same time.
Subject: Nash-Hooper House
- Reconstruction and the New South · 1866–1899
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Former governor William A. Graham lives in the Nash-Hooper House
William A. Graham, former governor of North Carolina, made the Nash-Hooper House on West Tryon Street his home from 1869 until 1875.
Subject: Nash-Hooper House
- Early twentieth century · 1900–1944
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The Graham family gives up the Nash-Hooper House
The family of former governor William A. Graham, who bought the West Tryon Street house about 1870, owned it until 1906. After that it passed through a number of families.
Subject: Nash-Hooper House
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The detached kitchen at the Nash-Hooper House is torn down
The nineteenth-century frame kitchen that had stood a few steps east of the Nash-Hooper House since 1819 was demolished.
Subject: Nash-Hooper House
- Civil rights era · 1945–1975
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Mary Claire Engstrom and her husband buy the Nash-Hooper House in Hillsborough
In 1959 Mary Claire Engstrom, who had earned a UNC doctorate in English literature in 1939, and her husband, UNC French professor Alfred G. Engstrom, bought the Nash-Hooper House in Hillsborough. From then on she turned her research to the history of Hillsborough and its surroundings.
People: Alfred G. Engstrom
Subject: Nash-Hooper House
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Mary Claire Engstrom documents 122 Hillsborough sites for the Historic American Buildings Survey
From 1963 to 1965 Mary Claire Engstrom documented 122 old structures and historic sites in and around Hillsborough for the Historic American Buildings Survey. Her research helped many of them reach the National Register, including the Nash-Hooper House as a National Historic Landmark, and helped establish two Hillsborough historic districts.
Subject: Nash-Hooper House
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The Nash-Hooper House is listed in the National Register
On November 11, 1971 the National Park Service listed the Nash-Hooper House in Hillsborough in the National Register of Historic Places.
Subject: Nash-Hooper House
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