Shuford House, also known as Maple Grove, is a historic home located at

Hickory Hickory is a common name for trees composing the genus ''Carya'', which includes around 18 species. Five or six species are native to China, Indochina, and India (Assam), as many as twelve are native to the United States, four are found in Mexi ...

, Catawba County, North Carolina. It was built in 1875, and is a two-story, three bay frame dwelling with a

central hall plan The central-passage house, also known variously as central hall plan house, center-hall house, hall-passage-parlor house, Williamsburg cottage, and Tidewater-type cottage, was a vernacular, or folk form, house type from the colonial period onward ...

. It features a two-story porch supported by four pairs of pillars. 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 1973. Maple Grove has been restored by the Hickory Landmarks Society and operated as a late 19th-century

historic house museum A historic house museum is a house of historic significance that has been transformed into a museum. Historic furnishings may be displayed in a way that reflects their original placement and usage in a home. Historic house museums are held to a ...

References

External links

Maple Grove - Hickory Landmarks Society
Hickory, North Carolina Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Houses completed in 1875 Houses in Catawba County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Catawba County, North Carolina Museums in Catawba County, North Carolina Historic house museums in North Carolina {{CatawbaCountyNC-NRHP-stub