Overview
The Attmore-Oliver House stands on Broad Street in New Bern, North Carolina, a Georgian townhouse of the 1790s enlarged in the 1830s, home across the 19th century to the Attmore and Oliver families whose letters and belongings document the town's mercantile life; in the 20th century it became headquarters of the New Bern Historical Society, serving as house museum and offices, its garden a pocket of calm behind the street. Its ghost lore is domestic in scale: society staff, volunteers and visitors have described footsteps on the stairs and upper floors when the house was empty, a rocking chair found moving, doors unlatching, cold spots in the back bedrooms, and occasional figures in 19th-century dress, gently attributed in telling to the families who lived their whole lives here — including members who endured the Civil War occupation of the town. These accounts should be presented as volunteer and visitor reports and local folklore rather than proven phenomena, and current access should be confirmed with the historical society, as the house's public opening has varied over the years.