Francis Parker House

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Francis Parker House
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Nearest city Murfreesboro, North Carolina
Coordinates 36°26′18″N77°8′55″W / 36.43833°N 77.14861°W / 36.43833; -77.14861
Area1 acre (0.40 ha)
Builtc. 1785 (1785)
Architectural styleGeorgian
NRHP reference No. 83001900 [1]
Added to NRHPOctober 21, 1983

Francis Parker House, also known as Parker's Big Run or High House, is a historic home located near Murfreesboro, North Carolina and Northampton County, North Carolina. It was built about 1785, and is a 1+12-story, hall and parlor plan, Georgian style frame dwelling with a one-story rear wing. It has a gambrel roof, is sheathed in weatherboard, sits on a raised brick basement, and rebuilt massive paved double-shoulder exterior end chimneys. The house was moves to its present location in 1976. The contributing Vaughan house and pyramidal-roof frame dairy (formerly located in Hertford County near the Parker house), were also moved to the site. [2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. [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. John B. Parker (July 1982). "Francis Parker House" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-03-01.