Elias Brendle Monteith House and Outbuildings

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Elias Brendle Monteith House and Outbuildings
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The Newly Repainted Monteith Farmhouse, January 2019
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Location111 Hometown Place Rd., Dillsboro, North Carolina
Coordinates 35°22′22″N83°14′41″W / 35.37278°N 83.24472°W / 35.37278; -83.24472 Coordinates: 35°22′22″N83°14′41″W / 35.37278°N 83.24472°W / 35.37278; -83.24472
Area16.3 acres (6.6 ha)
Builtc. 1908 (1908)
Architectural styleBungalow/craftsman
NRHP reference No. 08000778 [1]
Added to NRHPAugust 13, 2008

Elias Brendle Monteith House and Outbuildings is a historic home and farmstead located at Dillsboro, Jackson County, North Carolina. The house was built about 1908, and is a 2+12-story, front-gable-roof American Craftsman-style frame house with exposed rafter ends and knee braces. It features an eight-foot-deep porch on four sides. Also on the property are a number of contributing outbuildings including a greenhouse, two outhouses, a storage shed, a slaughterhouse, barn, a spring house, and a washhouse and cannery. [2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. [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. Sybil H. Argintar (April 2008). "Elias Brendle Monteith House and Outbuildings" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-01-01.