The William Alfred Moore House is a historic home located at Mount Airy,

Surry County, North Carolina Surry County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 71,359. Its county seat is Dobson, and its largest city is Mount Airy. Surry county comprises the Mount Airy, NC Micropolitan St ...

. It was built between 1861 and 1863, and is the earliest known structure still standing in Mount Airy. The house is known for its

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 ...

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 ...

exterior details and

Greek Revival The Greek Revival was an architectural movement which began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and the United States and Canada, but ...

interior. In the front yard stands a rare hexagonal

gazebo A gazebo is a pavilion structure, sometimes octagonal or turret-shaped, often built in a park, garden or spacious public area. Some are used on occasions as bandstands. Etymology The etymology given by Oxford Dictionaries (website), Oxford D ...

(c. 1865) made of wood poles and intervening laurel root walls. The Moore house is owned by the Mount Airy Restoration Foundation. It was added to 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 1986.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Gothic Revival architecture in North Carolina Greek Revival houses in North Carolina Italianate architecture in North Carolina Houses completed in 1863 Houses in Surry County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Surry County, North Carolina Mount Airy, North Carolina {{SurryCountyNC-NRHP-stub