Buxton Place

Buxton Place
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
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Location	NC 58 W side, 0.2 miles N of jct. with NC 1628, near Inez, North Carolina
Coordinates	36°14′30″N78°6′22″W / 36.24167°N 78.10611°W / 36.24167; -78.10611
Area	795.1 acres (321.8 ha)
Built	c. 1857 (1857)
Built by	John A. Waddell, Jacob W. Holt
Architectural style	Greek Revival, Italianate
NRHP reference No.	93000323 [1]
Added to NRHP	April 22, 1993

Buxton Place is a historic plantation / farm complex and national historic district located near Inez, Warren County, North Carolina. The main house was built by John A. Waddell, an associate of Jacob W. Holt, starting about 1857. It is a two-story, double-pile, Greek Revival / Italianate style frame dwelling. It has a low hipped roof and nearly full-width front porch. Other contributing resources are the mid-19th-century smokehouse, water tower (1918), barn (c. 1942), carriage house (c. 1930), chicken house (c. 1940), service station/store (c. 1930), a slave house or kitchen (mid-19th century), cotton gin (c. 1930), packhouse (c. 1940), workshop (c, 1930), family cemetery, and the agricultural landscape. ^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. ^[1]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Beth P. Thomas (December 1992). "Buxton Place" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved June 1, 2015.