Robert Lafayette Cooper House Explained

Robert Lafayette Cooper House
Location:109 Campbell St., Murphy, North Carolina
Coordinates:35.0869°N -84.0306°W
Architecture:Queen Anne
Added:September 5, 1990
Refnum:90001372

The Robert Lafayette Cooper House is a historic house at 109 Campbell Street in Murphy, North Carolina. The two story wood-frame house was built 1889–91, and is one of the finest Queen Anne Victorian houses in Cherokee County. The house is roughly rectangular in mass, with a number of gable sections projecting from its hipped roof. It has two octagonal cupolas, and an elaborately decorated porch which includes an octagonal corner section. The house was built by Robert Lafayette Cooper, a successful local lawyer, as a wedding present for his wife.[1]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: NRHP nomination for Robert Lafayette Cooper House. North Carolina SHPO. 2014-07-04.