Colfax is a small unincorporated community located in Guilford County, North Carolina, United States. It is located in the western part of the county. The population in 2010 was 4,136.
The Nash-Hooper House, also known as the William Hooper House, is a historic house at 118 West Tryon Street in Hillsborough, North Carolina. Built in 1772 by American Revolutionary War general Francis Nash, it was home from 1782–1790 to Founding Father William Hooper, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence. It is the only known home of Hooper's to survive, and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1971. It is located in the Hillsborough Historic District; it is a private residence, and is not normally open to the public.
The Benjamin Smith House is a historic home located at New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina. It was built about 1790, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, brick side-hall plan dwelling with Georgian and Federal-style design elements.
Gunston Hall, also known as Franklin Hall, is a historic estate and a national historic district located at Biltmore Forest, Buncombe County, North Carolina. The district encompasses five contributing buildings, one contributing site, and two contributing structures. The main house was designed by architect Waddy Butler Wood and built in 1923. It is a five-part Colonial Revival style dwelling consisting of a 1+1⁄2-story main block flanked by hyphens and 1+1⁄2-story wings. The grounds were designed by noted landscape architects Chauncey Beadle and Lola Anderson Dennis. Other contributing elements are the Grounds and Garden, the Breezeway, Gazebo, Tool Shed/Potting Shed, Greenhouse, Garden Shed, and Entrance Piers and Gates (1923). The estate was built by Dr. William Beverley Mason, a great-great grandson of George Mason, who built Gunston Hall (1759).
Mountain View is a historic plantation house at Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina. It was built about 1815, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, five-bay, Federal-style brick house. It was remodeled in the 1870s in the Gothic Revival style. It features a two-story gabled porch with decorative bargeboards. Later remodelings added Victorian- and Colonial Revival-style decorative elements.
Bost-Burris House, also known as the Elias Burris House, is a historic home located near Newton, Catawba County, North Carolina. It was built about 1810, and is a two-story, hall-and-parlor plan, frame dwelling. It is three bays wide and has an exterior end stone chimney. It has a 1+1⁄2-story ell dated to the late-1860s, and a one-story ell from the late-1890s. The interior retains Federal style design elements from its original construction.
William Teague House is a historic home located near Siler City, Chatham County, North Carolina. It was built in several sections built at various times during the first half of the 19th century. The property consists of a two-story log cabin dating from the 1820s-1830s; a 1+1⁄2-story, one room log section; and a rear shed and side frame addition. The house exhibits vernacular Federal and Greek Revival design elements. Also on the property are a contributing small corn crib and a smokehouse.
Clear Springs Plantation, also known as Dawson Place and Green's Thoroughfare, is a historic plantation house located near Jasper, Craven County, North Carolina. It was built about 1740, and is a 1+1⁄2-story, five bay by two bay, Georgian style frame dwelling. It may be the oldest standing structure in Craven County and probably one of the oldest in North Carolina.
York-Gordon House, more accurately known as the Patrick and Mary Gordon house, is a historic dwelling located at New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina. It was built in 1771, as documented by a letter from Patrick Gordon to William Hooper. Early title research suggested that the house was much older and belonged to Susan York; she evidently lived in an earlier house on this site; her house was probably destroyed in the great storm of 1769. The 1771 house is a 1+1⁄2-story, five-bay, frame dwelling with a gambrel roof and Georgian style design elements. A Federal chimneypiece replaced an earlier Georgian chimneypiece in the early 19 century. The house is sheathed in shiplap siding over brick-filled walls, rests on a brick over ballast stone foundation and features a full-width, one-story shed-roof porch, which was added 1786, based on estate records.
Spurgeon House is a historic home near High Point, Davidson County, North Carolina. It was built about 1854 and is a two-story frame dwelling with Late Federal and Greek Revival design elements. It has an irregular configuration with a 1+1⁄2-story wing and two-story addition. Also on the property are contributing outbuildings including a kitchen, slave house, spring house, smokehouse, chickenhouse, two frame barns, a frame carriage house, and a log root cellar.
Hoffman-Bowers-Josey-Riddick House is a historic home located at Scotland Neck, Halifax County, North Carolina. It was built in 1883, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, rectangular, frame dwelling with Stick Style / Eastlake movement design elements. It has a complex polychromed, slate roof gable roof; three-story central tower with hexagonal roof; and one-story rear ell. It features a front porch with sawn balustrade.
Falls–Hobbs House is a historic home located near Statesville, Iredell County, North Carolina. The house is dated to the 1820s or 1830s, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, three bay by two bay, frame dwelling. It has a steeply pitched gable roof, external end chimneys, and rests on a fieldstone foundation. The interior has Georgian, Federal, and Greek Revival style design elements. Also on the property is a contributing well house with a pyramidal roof.
Shaw House, also known as the Old Shaw Homestead, is a historic home located near Southern Pines, Moore County, North Carolina. It is dated to the early-19th century, and is a 1+1⁄2-story, three-bay, frame dwelling with Federal / Greek Revival style design elements. The house has massive, single-shoulder, dressed sandstone and brick end chimneys, a gable roof, and full-width engaged front porch. It has a rear ell added in the late-19th or early-20th century. Shaw House is thought to be one of the oldest surviving houses in Moore County.
Belvidere Plantation House, also known as the Merrick-Nixon House, is a historic plantation house located near Hampstead, Pender County, North Carolina, US. It was built about 1810 for slaveholder George Merrick, and is a 1+1⁄2-story, three-bay, gambrel-roofed dwelling with Georgian, Federal, and Greek Revival style design elements. It is sheathed in weatherboard and has exterior end chimneys and a shed-roofed front porch.
Burleigh, also known as the McGehee-Phifer Plantation, is a historic plantation house located near Concord, Person County, North Carolina. It was built between about 1800 and 1820, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, vernacular Late Georgian central hall plan symmetrical frame dwelling. The front and facades features Greek Revival style, one-story, temple front porticoes with Doric order columns. The interior has Late Federal and Greek Revival style design elements.
Dr. Franklin King House-Idlewild is a historic home located at Eden, Rockingham County, North Carolina. It was built in 1875, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, style frame dwelling with a 3+1⁄2-story tower. It combines elements of the Italianate, Queen Anne and Gothic Revival styles.
Owen-Harrison House is a historic plantation house located near Mill Bridge, Rowan County, North Carolina. It was built in 1843, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, four-bay, double pile brick dwelling with Federal/Greek Revival-style design elements. The front facade has a restored one-story pedimented porch and there are two chimneys on each gable end.
Isaac Williams House is a historic home located near Newton Grove, Sampson County, North Carolina. The farmhouse was built about 1867, and is a one-story, double-pile, five bay-by-four bay, transitional "Triple-A" frame dwelling, with Greek Revival style design elements. It has a prominent front cross-gable roof and hip roofed, three bay, front porch. A 1+1⁄2-story rear ell was added about 1980. Also on the property are the contributing servants quarters, family cemetery, and surrounding fields and woodlands.
Shaw Family Farms are historic family farms and a national historic district located near Wagram, Scotland County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 16 contributing buildings and 2 contributing structures. They include three houses: The Dr. Daniel Shaw House, a large two-story, double-pile house with a dominant double tier gable portico built about 1885 with a Greek Revival interior; the Alexander Edwin Shaw House, a rambling one-story vernacular frame dwelling with an extensive Victorian wraparound porch also built about 1885; and the Dr. William Graham Shaw House, a one-story house of traditional local form, treated with a variety of simplified Queen Anne elements and built in 1900. Also on the farms are a number of contributing agricultural outbuildings.
Webb-Barron-Wells House is a historic home located near Elm City, Wilson County, North Carolina. It was probably built between about 1793 and 1820, and is a 1+1⁄2-story, double pile, frame coastal cottage with a hall-and-parlor plan. It has a steeply pitched roofline and exterior end chimneys. A kitchen wing was added about 1949.
