Verona is a historic

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located near

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. It was built about 1855, and is a one-story, six-bay, T-shaped, Italian Villa style frame dwelling. It has a hipped roof, is sheathed in weatherboard, and sits on a brick basement. It features a full-width porch, with flat sawnwork posts and delicate

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brackets. Also on the property is the contributing family

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. The house was built for

Matt Whitaker Ransom Matthew Whitaker Ransom (October 8, 1826October 8, 1904) was a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War and a Democratic U.S. senator from the state of North Carolina between 1872 and 1895. Early life Matt Ransom wa ...

(1826-1904), Confederate brigadier general, United States senator, and minister to Mexico, and his wife Martha Exum. It was listed on the

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in 1975.

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* Historic American Buildings Survey in North Carolina Plantation houses in North Carolina Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Italianate architecture in North Carolina Houses completed in 1855 Houses in Northampton County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Northampton County, North Carolina {{NorthamptonCountyNC-NRHP-stub