Aspen Hall (Pittsboro, North Carolina)

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Aspen Hall
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LocationWest of Pittsboro on US 64, near Pittsboro, North Carolina
Coordinates 35°43′56.8″N79°15′47.6″W / 35.732444°N 79.263222°W / 35.732444; -79.263222
Area26 acres (11 ha)
Built1790s
Architectural style Greek Revival, Georgian, Federal
NRHP reference No. 82003441 [1]
Added to NRHPJuly 29, 1982

Aspen Hall is a historic plantation house located near Pittsboro, Chatham County, North Carolina. The original section was built in the 1790s, and took its present form between about 1830 and 1840. It is a two-story, weatherboarded gable roofed Federal style frame house, with a Greek Revival style facade. It was built by Joseph John "Chatham Jack" Alston, who enslaved as many as 163 people and also built the nearby Alston-DeGraffenried Plantation. [2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. [1]

See Elias Hall for a description of who built this house. [3]

References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. Charlotte V. Brown, and Jim Sumner (April 1981). "Aspen Hall" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved August 1, 2014.
  3. Steeman, Lala Carr (1979). "Elias Hall". NCPEDIA.