The Thomas B. Finley House, also known as The Oaks, is a historic home located at North Wilkesboro,

Wilkes County, North Carolina Wilkes County is a county located in the US state of North Carolina. It is a part of the state's western mountain region. As of the 2020 census the population was 65,969, in 2010 the census listed the population at 69,340. Its county seat is ...

. It was designed by architect Norma Bonniwell (1877–1961) and built in 1893. It is a two-story, Queen Anne style frame dwelling with a one-story rear ell. It features a hip and gable roof, corner tower, fish-scale-cut wood shingles, and one-story, hip-roofed, wraparound porch. It was built for prominent attorney Thomas B. Finley (1862–1942), whose firm Finley and Hendren occupied the

Thomas B. Finley Law Office Thomas B. Finley Law Office, also known as the J. F. Jordan Law Office, is a historic law office located at Wilkesboro, Wilkes County, North Carolina. It was built during the early 1880s, and is a small one-story frame building one room wide and t ...

at Wilkesboro. It was listed on the

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in 2008.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Queen Anne architecture in North Carolina Houses completed in 1893 Houses in Wilkes County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Wilkes County, North Carolina 1893 establishments in North Carolina {{WilkesCountyNC-NRHP-stub