200 and 106 E. Main St., Wilkesboro, North Carolina. County/parish: Wilkes.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places August 24, 1982. NRIS 82003522.
Part of Wilkesboro MRA (NRIS 64000469).
4 contributing buildings.Also known as:
Brown-Cowles House and Cowles Law Office, also known as the Paul Osborne House and Law and Bride Cottage, is a historic home and law office located at Wilkesboro in Wilkes County, North Carolina, United States. The Cowles Law Office was built about 1871, and is a small one-story frame building with gable roof and single-shoulder end chimney. The original section of the Brown-Cowles House was built about 1834, and enlarged with a two-story wing by 1885 and enlarged again between 1920 and 1926. It is a two-story frame dwelling with Federal style detailing. Also on the property are the contributing curing house and kitchen. It was the home of William H. H. Cowles (1840-1901), a lawyer and four-term Congressman during the 1880s and 1890s.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718709