Harvey Mansion Explained

Harvey Mansion
Location:219 Tryon Palace Dr., New Bern, North Carolina
Coordinates:35.1044°N -77.0381°W
Built:c.
Added:November 12, 1971
Refnum:71000574

Harvey Mansion is a historic home located at New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina. It was built about 1793, and is a three-story, brick dwelling with an exposed basement.[1] The house was built by John Harvey who used it as a residential home and also for commercial space. The Harvey was a multi-purpose building for hundreds of years since it was first erected. Throughout its lifetime The Harvey has been an apartment house, a family owned restaurant, boarding school, military academy, and temporary barracks for elements of the Union Army and was the original home of what is now Craven Community College.[2]

It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1971.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Survey Planning Unit Staff. Harvey Mansion. National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . September 1971. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office . 2014-08-01.
  2. http://joeocallahan.mydomain.com/Book.html Ghosts of New Bern by Joseph and Joyce O'Callahan