Town of Boone issued the following announcement on Dec. 3.
As a continuation of the Boone 150, the next historic landmark we want to showcase is the Frank A. Linney House and former Linney Law Office.
Located at 219 Queen Street and 718 West King Street, “(t)he Frank A. Linney House and the former Linney Law Office are significant for their association with Frank A. Linney (June 29, 1874-June 29, 1928), a prominent Boone attorney and politician who served as a prosecuting attorney for both the State of North Carolina and the United States government, and was selected as the state chairman of the Republican Party in North Carolina. He was the son of Colonel Romulus Z. Linney, a powerful North Carolina US Congressman during the late nineteenth century.
The Frank A. Linney House and the former Linney Law Office are also significant as remarkably intact examples of early Downtown Boone residential and commercial architecture. R. L. Councill built the original 1894 portion of the house as a six-room dwelling, but after purchasing the house in 1902, Linney greatly expanded the house in 1915-16 and again circa 1926, adding numerous Craftsman and Queen Anne elements that reflected his improving financial circumstances. The former Linney Law Office, meanwhile, is an exceedingly rare example of an earlier twentieth-century, stacked fieldstone, commercial building located at the heart of the Downtown Boone business district. ” (Frank A. Linney House and Former Linney Law Office Local Historic Landmark Designation Report (2017)).
Currently, the Former Linney Law Office is being used as a multi-purpose building in the middle of King Street. While the inside has been modernized, the outside of the building still exudes the charm of the earlier twentieth-century architecture. The Frank A. Linney House is used as a private dwelling, with very minimal updates done to the house itself.
For more information on these historic landmarks, as well as other historic buildings and areas in Boone, please visit www.townofboone.net/hpc
Original source can be found here.
