Eldon B. Tunstall Farm

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Eldon B. Tunstall Farm
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LocationNC 1500, near Bullock, North Carolina
Coordinates 36°31′55″N78°31′55″W / 36.53194°N 78.53194°W / 36.53194; -78.53194
Area40 acres (16 ha)
Built1907 (1907)
Built byBolden, Tom
Architectural styleI-house
MPS Granville County MPS
NRHP reference No. 88001255 [1]
Added to NRHPAugust 31, 1988

Eldon B. Tunstall Farm is a historic tobacco farm complex and national historic district located near Bullock, Granville County, North Carolina. The farmhouse was built about 1907, and is a two-story, three-bay, frame I-house, with a one-story full facade porch. Also on the property are the contributing dairy, smokehouse, well house, log corn crib, log horse and mule barn, packhouse, striphouse, ordering house, garage, shop, chicken house, three V-notched log tobacco barns, and a former store. [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 A. Brown and Patricia Esperon (October 1987). "Eldon B. Tunstall Farm" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved November 1, 2014.