Shaw Family Farms

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Shaw Family Farms
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Dr. Daniel Shaw House (c. 1885
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LocationSR 1405, near Wagram, North Carolina
Coordinates 34°52′30″N79°23′54″W / 34.87500°N 79.39833°W / 34.87500; -79.39833 Coordinates: 34°52′30″N79°23′54″W / 34.87500°N 79.39833°W / 34.87500; -79.39833
Area584.3 acres (236.5 ha)
Built1885 (1885)
Architectural styleGreek Revival, Queen Anne
NRHP reference No. 83003999 [1]
Added to NRHPOctober 13, 1983

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. [2]

It was added to 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. Thomas Butchko; Davyd Foard Hood & Jim Sumner (October 1982). "Shaw Family Farms" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-05-01.