Elbert Crouse Farmstead

Elbert Crouse Farmstead
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	S of Whitehead on Blue Ridge Parkway, Whitehead, North Carolina
Coordinates	36°25′41″N81°9′4″W / 36.42806°N 81.15111°W / 36.42806; -81.15111
Area	139 acres (56 ha)
NRHP reference No.	82003423 [1]
Added to NRHP	July 29, 1982

Elbert Crouse Farmstead is a historic home and farm located near Whitehead, Alleghany County, North Carolina. The farmhouse was built about 1905, and is a small log dwelling with a traditional two-room plan and an attic under a steeply pitched gable roof. Also on the property is a contributing frame barn, dated to the 1920s or 1930s, a small shed storage building with vertical board siding, a latticed gable roof structure that was originally a grave cover, a concrete block silo, the ruins of a small frame outbuilding, and the family cemetery. The Elbert Crouse Farmstead is representative of the small subsistence family farms in Western North Carolina. ^[2]

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

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Michael T. Southern and Jerry L. Cross (September 1981). "Brinegar Cabin" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved August 1, 2014.