Clover Hill, also known as Colonel Edmund Jones House, is a historic

plantation house A plantation house is the main house of a plantation, often a substantial farmhouse, which often serves as a symbol for the plantation as a whole. Plantation houses in the Southern United States and in other areas are known as quite grand and ...

near

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Caldwell County, North Carolina Caldwell County is a county in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. As of the 2020 census, the population was 80,652. Its county seat is Lenoir. Caldwell County is part of the Hickory- ...

. Located on a knoll within the Happy Valley at the foot of the

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, Clover Hill was built in 1846 by Colonel Edmund W. Jones for his bride Sonia C. Davenport. It is a two-story, five-bay, brick,

Greek Revival Greek Revival architecture is a architectural style, style that began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe, the United States, and Canada, ...

-style house. The house sits on a raised basement and has a hipped roof. Additionally, it features a shed porch supported by four handsome fluted

Ionic order The Ionic order is one of the three canonic classical order, orders of classical architecture, the other two being the Doric order, Doric and the Corinthian order, Corinthian. There are two lesser orders: the Tuscan order, Tuscan (a plainer Doric) ...

columns. Inside the house, the interior is decorated with typical Greek Revival trim, such as Ionic and Doric colonnettes. The house was listed on the

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in 1973 for, according to the Statement of Significance, "its unusually handsome Ionic porch, entrances" and its well-executed interiors"

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* Plantation houses in North Carolina Historic American Buildings Survey in North Carolina Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Greek Revival houses in North Carolina Houses completed in 1846 Houses in Caldwell County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Caldwell County, North Carolina Brick buildings and structures in North Carolina {{CaldwellCountyNC-NRHP-stub