The Broughton House was a

Colonial Revival The Colonial Revival architectural style seeks to revive elements of American colonial architecture. The beginnings of the Colonial Revival style are often attributed to the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, which reawakened Americans to the archi ...

-style mansion located in the Anderson Heights Historic District in

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. Previously owned by Robert Bain Broughton and Celeste Gold Broughton, the son and daughter-in-law of North Carolina Governor

J. Melville Broughton Joseph Melville Broughton Jr. (November 17, 1888March 6, 1949) was an American politician who served as the 60th governor of North Carolina from 1941 to 1945. He later briefly served as a United States Senator from January 3, 1949 until his dea ...

, the house was sold at an auction by

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in 2019 and demolished in 2020.

History

In 1936 Irving F. Hall, the president of State Capital Life Insurance Company, and his wife, Olive Hall, purchased ten lots along White Oak Road in the Anderson Heights neighborhood in Raleigh. Construction on the house, situated on the three highest plots of land on the property, finished in 1938. The house was built in the

style. The Halls sold the home to a Raleigh physician in 1950. It was sold again in 1960. In 1965 the house was purchased by Robert Bain Broughton and Celeste Gold Broughton. Broughton was the son of

Alice Willson Broughton Alice Harper Willson Broughton (July 13, 1889 – August 15, 1980) was an American civic leader who served as the First Lady of North Carolina from 1941 to 1945 as the wife of Governor J. Melville Broughton. She and her husband were the first gove ...

and

, a United States senator and former Governor of North Carolina, and a grandnephew of Needham B. Broughton, a state senator. His wife was the daughter of publisher John D. Gold and author

Daisy Hendley Gold Daisy Mabel Hendley Gold (October 26, 1893 – April 7, 1975) was an American writer, poet, and journalist. She worked for the ''Statesville Record & Landmark'' and '' The Greenville Piedmont'' before becoming the managing editor of the ''Wilson T ...

and a granddaughter of publisher

Pleasant Daniel Gold Pleasant Daniel Gold (March 25, 1833 – June 7, 1920) was an American publisher, lawyer, and Baptist minister. Ordained as a Primitive Baptist minister in the Kehukee Association, he was a prominent Baptist leader in North Carolina for over hal ...

. The Broughtons later divorced, and Celeste Gold Broughton stayed in the home with their two sons. In June 2019 a local bankruptcy court approved the sale of the house to pay debts accumulated by Celeste Gold Broughton. It was sold for $2.1 million to Anuj and Vinita Mittal at a

auction in October 2019. The Mittal family decided to have the Broughton House demolished to make way for four new homes to be built on the property, each listed between $900,000 and $1.1 million. To preserve some of the historic elements of the house, bidders have been granted permission to purchase structures and interiors from the house.

References

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