The Jolly-Broughton House is a historic

Georgian Revival Georgian architecture is the name given in most English-speaking countries to the set of architectural styles current between 1714 and 1830. It is named after the first four British monarchs of the House of Hanover—George I, George II, Georg ...

-style house in

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. The house, completed in 1929, was the home 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 ...

and First Lady

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History

The Jolly-Broughton House is located at 929 Holt Drive in the

Hayes Barton Historic District The Hayes Barton Historic District is a neighborhood located northwest of downtown Raleigh, North Carolina. Hayes Barton, an upper class neighborhood designed by landscape architect Earle Sumner Draper, contains 457 buildings on . The neighborhoo ...

. Construction began in 1928 and was completed in 1929. It was designed by architects Charles Atwood, Arthur C. Nash and built by Howard E. Satterfield. The home was originally built for Janie R. Jolly, the widow of Frank Jolly, owner of Jolly's Jewelers.

, who served as

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and as a U.S. Senator, later purchased the house. He and his wife,

lived in the house before and after his term as governor (1941-1945), when they lived in the

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. In 1980 Mrs. Broughton suffered a fatal heart attack in the house. The Jolly-Broughton House has three colonnaded porches, five bays, two gable end brick chimneys, and brick soldier arches with cast stone keystones. The house is included in the

and was included in the district's nomination for the

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in 2002.

References

{{Reflist Georgian Revival architecture in North Carolina Houses completed in 1929 Houses in Raleigh, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Raleigh, North Carolina