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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
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located at Wilkesboro in Wilkes County,
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. 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
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style detailing. Also on the property are the contributing curing house and kitchen. It was the home of
William H. H. Cowles William Henry Harrison Cowles (April 22, 1840 – December 30, 1901) was a North Carolina Democratic politician who served four terms in the United States House of Representatives. Biography A native of Yadkin County, North Carolina, Cowles se ...
(1840-1901), a lawyer and four-term Congressman during the 1880s and 1890s. It was listed on the
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in 1982.


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Alfred Moore Scales Law Office Alfred Moore Scales Law Office is a historic law office building located at Madison, Rockingham County, North Carolina. It was built in 1856, and moved to its present location in the 1920s. It is a one-story gable-roofed frame structure sheathed i ...
: NRHP listing in Madison, North Carolina * Thomas B. Finley Law Office: NRHP listing also in Wilkesboro, North Carolina *
Archibald Henderson Law Office The Archibald Henderson Law Office is a historic law office building located at Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina. History The Law Office was built in 1796, and is a one-story, one room, frame building with a low hipped roof and a brick fo ...
: NRHP listing in Salisbury, North Carolina *
Nash Law Office Nash Law Office is a historic office building located at Hillsborough, North Carolina, Hillsborough, Orange County, North Carolina. It was built in 1801, and is a small one-story, frame building with a gable roof and low brick foundation. It has ...
: NRHP listing in Hillsborough, North Carolina *
Zollicoffer's Law Office Zollicoffer's Law Office is a historic office building located at Henderson, Vance County, North Carolina. It was built in 1887, and is a two-story, two bay by two bay, brick building with Italianate style design elements. It is associated with ...
: NRHP listing in Henderson, North Carolina *
National Register of Historic Places listings in Wilkes County, North Carolina This list includes properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Wilkes County, North Carolina. Click the "Map of all coordinates" link to the right to view an online map of all properties and districts with lati ...


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