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c. 1920 Dutch Colonial
W.D. Adams House
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This home has been renovated with attention to detail and is a real beauty. Complete update of the kitchen within the last two years.
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| 2 Stories | |
| Bedrooms | 5 |
| Full Baths | 3 |
| Heated Sq. Ft. | 3,380 |
| Unheated Sq. Ft. | 318 |
| Acres | 0.5 |
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History and Features
This Dutch Colonial House was built in 1920 for William D. Adams, the vice-president of Barnes-Harrell Company, local bottlers of Coca-Cola. Mr. Adams and his family remained in the home until the mid 1960’s. The W.D Adams House was then purchased by Raymond Thomas in 1967. When Mr. Thomas decided to move the house was then purchased by his neighbor Margaret Dickerman, who sold it to us in 2007. This elegant home is great for large family gatherings or business events. It has been featured on several Wilson Christmas Tours. It is in a walkable, friendly neighborhood.
The large, two-story frame house’s distinctive gambrel roof features a delightful eyebrow window on the front and has round-arched attic windows in the gables. A handsome pediment porch with an exposed, coved ceiling carried by Tuscan columns frames the central bay. The porch shelters the front entrance, framed by an impressive beveled glass transom and sidelights in a classically inspired design. The symmetrical home is flanked by one-story sun porches; the left one features additional leaded glass. The hooded fanlight eyebrow tops a large shed roof dormer.
An elegant corbelled plaster arch in the central hall frames the handsome staircase. The large rooms are finished with heavy crown molding and frames breaking the living and dining room walls into panels. The mantels are surprisingly modest for such an elegantly finished interior but have, fortunately, never been painted. As you pass through the butler’s pantry to the kitchen, you step back in time to the age of Art Deco. Carrara glass tiles on the wall and original linoleum on the floor are straight from the House Beautiful or Architectural Digest magazines of the 1940s. The designer bathrooms were renovated at the same time as the kitchen and appear as though they could be straight out of an American Standard brochure.. In addition, the house is one of a handful in our historic Neighborhoods that has a working elevator. Look closely at the windows and be sure to note the unique disappearing screens.
Additional Features and Information
• Square Feet-3380
• Land- .48 Acres
• Bedrooms- (master suite has 2 rooms, plus 2 additional bedrooms up and 1 downstairs)
• Baths-3 full
• Floors- 2 (2 wings)
• Fireplaces-5 (2 wood and 3 coal)
Additional Information
• Elevator
• Butler Pantry
• Eat in Kitchen
• Utility Room
• Sunrooms (2) – one has leaded/beveled glass windows
• Screened Porch
• Hardwood Floors (Carpet in den and downstairs room)
• Old Wilson Historic District ( Across from Barton College)
• New Roof(2007)
• Upgraded Electrical(2007)
• New HVAC system(2007)
• Repaired Termite Damage(2007)
• Sill and Structure Repairs
Location
Wilson’s location is just 40 minutes east of Raleigh, the state capital. It is an hour from the Raleigh-Durham International Airport, two hours from the beach and five hours from the mountains. Wilson’s ideal location puts you on I-95 half-way between Miami and New York and on the North/South Amtrak railroad line.
Archived in August, 2015
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