Rufus Amis House and Mill | |
Nearest city | Virgilina, Virginia |
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Area | 32.7 acres (13.2 ha) |
Built | c. 1855 |
Architectural style | Greek Revival, Gothic Revival |
MPS | Granville County MPS |
NRHP reference No. | 88000416 [1] |
Added to NRHP | April 28, 1988 |
Rufus Amis House and Mill is a historic home and grist mill and national historic district located near Virgilina, Virginia in Granville County, North Carolina. The house was built about 1855, and is a 1+1⁄2-story, L-shaped Gothic Revival / Greek Revival style frame dwelling. It has a roof with six gables and delicately sawn bargeboards. Also on the property are the contributing smokehouse, icehouse (later a striphouse), privy, barn, chicken house, corn crib, mill race, former dwelling, and 3+1⁄2-story grist mill. [2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. [1]
Rufus Amis served in the North Carolina House of Representatives in 1879 and 1889 representing Granville County. [3]
Enfield Falls Mill and Miller's House, also known as Treman House and Mill, is a historic grist mill and former millowner's residence located at Robert H. Treman State Park near Ithaca in Tompkins County, New York. The mill is a 2+1⁄2-story frame structure over a stone foundation. It is a turbine-powered mill constructed in 1839. The mill has three runs of stones: one for griding buckwheat, one for grinding wheat, and a third for grinding coarser grain. The mill ceased operation in 1917. The millowner's house is a simple but elegant vernacular Greek Revival–style dwelling. The house consists of a 1+1⁄2-story main section, with a slightly lower L-shaped wing. It serves as home for the park superintendent.
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