The Hambley-Wallace House is Salisbury's most outrageous piece of architecture: a 1903 Beaux-Arts mansion built for Egbert Barry Cornwall Hambley, a Cornish-born mining engineer who made a fortune in North Carolina gold. The exterior is a riot of Bedford limestone, granite, copper, and tile, with a porte-cochere on one side and a glass-roofed conservatory on the other.
The house is privately owned and not open to the public, but it sits on a corner lot on West Fisher Street and is easy to admire from the sidewalk. It serves as a useful reminder that Salisbury, at the turn of the 20th century, was a wealthier town than any of its present neighbours.