Harwood Hall

Harwood Hall, also known as the George Watts House, was a mansion in the Morehead Hill Neighborhood of Durham, North Carolina.

Norton and a Boston-based architectural firm, Kendall and Taylor, to construct a three-story pink granite Châteauesque mansion, which he named Harwood Hall.

[1] They gifted the mansion to their son, George Watts Hill, who moved in with his wife, Ann McCulloch, after an 18-month honeymoon.

[1] Ann McCulloch Hill, an artist who was the daughter of schoolteachers, considered Harwood Hall ostentatious, calling it "a fifty room monstrosity - the satisfied desire of dead ancestors.

"[1] Despite her disdain for the mansion, she and George lived at Harwood Hall from 1926 until 1938, when they moved to their dairy farm, Quail Roost.

[4] An artist named Gerard Tempest purchased materials from the house for $5,000 in order to build an arts space on Franklin Street in Chapel Hill.