Dr. Franklin King House-Idlewild is a historic home located at Eden,

Rockingham County, North Carolina Rockingham County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 91,096. Its county seat is Wentworth. The county is known as "North Carolina's North Star." Rockingham County is included in ...

. It was built in 1875, and is a -story, style frame dwelling with a -story tower. It combines elements of the

Italianate The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style drew its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian R ...

, Queen Anne and

Gothic Revival Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...

styles. It was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 1983.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Gothic Revival architecture in North Carolina Italianate architecture in North Carolina Queen Anne architecture in North Carolina Houses completed in 1875 Houses in Rockingham County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Rockingham County, North Carolina {{RockinghamCountyNC-NRHP-stub