The Herring House is a historic home in La Grange, North Carolina. Built in 1801, the Herring House was added to the National Register of Historic Places in October 1973.
Famous quotes containing the words herring and/or house:
“No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old lady swathed in woolies who compared herself to a rotten herring encased in a block of ice.”
—Claude Lévi-Strauss (b. 1908)
“A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract them from the longing for adventure and escape they’ve had since time began.”
—Marguerite Duras (b. 1914)