Montrose is a historic estate and national

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located at Hillsborough,

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. The estate was once owned by North Carolina Governor William Alexander Graham and Susannah Sarah Washington Graham. The main house was built about 1900 and remodeled in 1948. It is a two-story, three-bay, double-pile frame dwelling with a high-hip, slate-covered roof, and flanking one-story wings. It features a

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style pedimented entrance pavilion with a swan's neck pediment. Also on the property are the contributing William Alexander Graham Law Office (1842, c. 1893) with Federal style design elements, garage (1935), kitchen (c. 1845),

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in 2001. It is located in the Hillsborough Historic District.

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