Malcolm J. Thornton House

Contributors:

Leila Ross Wilburn, architect

Dates:

ca. 1920

Location:

Clinton, Sampson County

Street Address:

209 E. Johnson St., Clinton, NC

Status:

Standing

Type:

Residential

Note:

Like many of Wilburn’s designs, this is a boldly detailed bungalow. Many other similar houses, so far unidentified, were derived from her plans. It is variously dated as 1919 and 1921. According to Thomas Butchko in An Inventory of Historic Architecture, Sampson County, North Carolina (1981), it was based on Wilburn’s “Plan Number 675.”