Roxboro Male Academy and Methodist Parsonage

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Roxboro Male Academy and Methodist Parsonage
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Location315 N. Main St., Roxboro, North Carolina
Coordinates 36°23′43″N78°58′48″W / 36.39528°N 78.98000°W / 36.39528; -78.98000 Coordinates: 36°23′43″N78°58′48″W / 36.39528°N 78.98000°W / 36.39528; -78.98000
Arealess than one acre
Architectural styleColonial Revival, Greek Revival, Italianate
NRHP reference # 82003497 [1]
Added to NRHPJuly 29, 1982

Roxboro Male Academy and Methodist Parsonage is a historic school and church parsonage located at 315 N. Main Street in Roxboro, Person County, North Carolina. The original main block was built between 1840 and 1854, as a two-story, single-pile, frame building with Greek Revival style design elements. A two-story addition with Italianate style design elements was added in the late-19th century. The house took on some Colonial Revival style design elements with the addition of a front porch and interior changes in that style. It is one of the oldest buildings still standing in the town of Roxboro and served as a Methodist parsonage from 1854 to 1915. [2]

Roxboro, North Carolina City in North Carolina, United States

Roxboro is a city and the county seat of Person County, North Carolina in the United States. The population was 8,362 at the 2010 census. The city is 30 miles (48 km) north of Durham and is a part of the four-county Durham-Chapel Hill Metropolitan Statistical Area, which has a population of 504,357 as of the 2010 Census. The Durham–Chapel Hill MSA is a part of the larger Raleigh-Durham-Cary Combined Statistical Area, which has a population of 1,749,525 as of the 2010 Census.

Person County, North Carolina U.S. county in North Carolina, United States

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Greek Revival architecture architectural movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries

The Greek Revival was an architectural movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in Northern Europe and the United States. It revived the style of ancient Greek architecture, in particular the Greek temple, with varying degrees of thoroughness and consistency. A product of Hellenism, it may be looked upon as the last phase in the development of Neoclassical architecture, which had for long mainly drawn from Roman architecture. The term was first used by Charles Robert Cockerell in a lecture he gave as Professor of Architecture to the Royal Academy of Arts, London in 1842.

The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. [1]

National Register of Historic Places Federal list of historic sites in the United States

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. 2009-03-13.
  2. Peter R. Kaplan and Joe Mobley (n.d.). "Roxboro Male Academy and Methodist Parsonage" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-02-01.