Col. Richard P. Taylor House

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Col. Richard P. Taylor House
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LocationNC 1524, near Huntsboro, North Carolina
Coordinates 36°20′09″N78°32′20″W / 36.33583°N 78.53889°W / 36.33583; -78.53889
Area10 acres (4.0 ha)
Built1835 (1835)
Architectural styleGreek Revival, Federal
MPS Granville County MPS
NRHP reference No. 88000414 [1]
Added to NRHPApril 28, 1988

Col. Richard P. Taylor House is a historic plantation complex and national historic district located near Huntsboro, Granville County, North Carolina. The plantation house was built about 1835, and is a tall two-story, five-bay, transitional Federal / Greek Revival style frame dwelling. It has a one-story rear ell, exterior end chimneys, and a full-height brick basement. The house is nearly identical to that built by Col. Richard Taylor's half-brother, the Archibald Taylor Plantation House. Also on the property are the contributing early mortise and tenon smokehouse, a pigeon house or tobacco packhouse, an air-cure tobacco barn, a frame corn crib, and two log tobacco barns. [2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. Marvin Brown and Patricia Esperon (August 1987). "Col. Richard P. Taylor House" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved November 1, 2014.