Wakefield Dairy Complex

Last updated
Wakefield Dairy Complex
USA North Carolina location map.svg
Red pog.svg
Usa edcp location map.svg
Red pog.svg
Nearest cityWest side Falls of the Neuse Road (SR 2000), 1.2 miies north of Neuse River (12417 Falls of the Neuse Road), near Wake Forest, North Carolina
Coordinates 35°57′28″N78°34′7″W / 35.95778°N 78.56861°W / 35.95778; -78.56861
Area5 acres (2.0 ha)
Built1934 (1934)
Built byRich, S.O.
Architectural styleGothic-roofed barn
MPS Wake County MPS
NRHP reference No. 02001719 [1]
Added to NRHPJanuary 15, 2003

Wakefield Dairy Complex is a historic commercial building associated with the Royall Mill and located at Wake Forest, Wake County, North Carolina. The complex was built in 1934, and consists of an 8,000 square foot, four-story, dairy barn with silos; a bull barn; and a calf barn. It was built to house John Sprunt Hill's Guernsey dairy herd. [2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. [1]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Wake Forest, North Carolina</span> Town in North Carolina, United States

Wake Forest is a town in Wake and Franklin counties in the U.S. state of North Carolina. Located almost entirely in Wake County, it lies just north of the state capital, Raleigh. At the 2020 census, the population was 47,601, up from 30,117 in 2010. It is part of the Raleigh metropolitan area. Wake Forest was the original home of Wake Forest University for 122 years before it moved to Winston-Salem in 1956.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Reynolda Village</span> Shopping mall in North Carolina, U.S.

Reynolda Village is a shopping and business complex in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, created from the servant and agricultural buildings of Reynolda, the former R. J. Reynolds estate. The village, which covers around 13.5 acres (5.5 ha), was planned as a working model farm, designed by Charles Barton Keen and Willard C. Northup in the early 20th century. It is now part of Reynolda Historic District, with twenty-two of its buildings, and one other contributing structure, now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Spring Hill Farm (Lebanon, New Hampshire)</span> Historic house in New Hampshire, United States

Spring Hill Farm is a historic farm at 263 Meriden Road in Lebanon, New Hampshire. Founded in the late 18th century, the farm is noted for innovations in dairy farming practices introduced in the 1920s by Maurice Downs. It is also one of a small number of surviving farm properties in the town, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Woodland Plantation (Carlisle, South Carolina)</span> Historic house in South Carolina, United States

Woodland Plantation is a historic plantation house and farm complex located near Carlisle, Union County, South Carolina, United States. It was built about 1850, and is a two-story, Greek Revival style clapboard structure. It features a front porch with square columns that have windows on all four sides. The complex includes buildings dating from 1850 to about 1950. They include a storehouse, a smokehouse, a carriage house, a bull pen, a cotton gin house, a privy, a hay barn, a calf barn, an office, a dairy milking parlor, and a silo.

Walnut Grove, also known as Robeson Plantation, is a historic plantation house complex and national historic district located near Tar Heel, Bladen County, North Carolina. The house was built about 1855, and is a two-story, frame house, five bays wide and four bays deep, in the Greek Revival style. The front and rear facades feature three bay double porches. Also on the property are the contributing dining dependency, kitchen, dairy, smokehouse, barn, well, cold frame, and scalding vat.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Eliada Home</span> Historic district in North Carolina

Eliada Home is a national historic district located near Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. The district originally encompassed 10 contributing buildings and 3 contributing sites associated with a youth home complex in suburban Asheville. Of the original 10, only 5 remain. They included the early residential, administrative, and agricultural buildings of the home as well as a residence, a tabernacle site, a log guest cabin, and a cemetery. The primary buildings were the Main Building and the Allred Cottage (1930). The buildings included representative examples of the Colonial Revival, Bungalow, Bungalow/craftsman, and Tudor Revival styles.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Win-Mock Farm Dairy</span> United States historic place

Win-Mock Farm Dairy is a historic dairy complex located at Bermuda Run, Davie County, North Carolina, USA. The complex was built about 1930 and includes a dairy barn, bottling plant, granary, cistern and water trough. The barn is a two-story frame building that measures 38 feet, 3 inches, in width by 180 feet in length. It has a concrete foundation, wood German-siding and a Gothic arch roof.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Leigh Farm</span> Historic house in North Carolina, United States

The Leigh Farm is a historic home and plantation complex located near Chapel Hill, Durham County, North Carolina. The house was built about 1834, and is a one-story, three-bay, frame dwelling with a broad gable roof. Also on the property are the contributing frame gable-roof well, dairy, smokehouse, log slave quarters, a log dwelling, corn crib, frame carriage house, and log tobacco barn.

John Henry Royster Farm is a historic tobacco farm complex and national historic district located near Bullock, Granville County, North Carolina. The farmhouse was built about 1860, and is a two-story, heavy timber frame dwelling. It features Greek Revival and Gothic Revival style design elements patterned after regional architect Jacob W. Holt. Also on the property are the contributing garage, corn crib, shed, dairy, smokehouse, chicken house, brooder house, a square notched log striphouse, two-square-notched log tobacco barns, a metal-sheathed log tobacco barn and a frame packhouse.

Eldon B. Tunstall Farm is a historic tobacco farm complex and national historic district located near Bullock, Granville County, North Carolina. The farmhouse was built about 1907, and is a two-story, three-bay, frame I-house, with a one-story full facade porch. Also on the property are the contributing dairy, smokehouse, well house, log corn crib, log horse and mule barn, packhouse, striphouse, ordering house, garage, shop, chicken house, three V-notched log tobacco barns, and a former store.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Fletcher-Skinner-Nixon House and Outbuildings</span> Historic house in North Carolina, United States

Fletcher-Skinner-Nixon House and Outbuildings, also known as Swampside, is a historic plantation complex located near Hertford, Perquimans County, North Carolina. The main house was built about 1820, and is a two-story, Federal style frame dwelling. It is sheathed in weatherboard, sits on a brick pier foundation, and features an engaged double-tier piazza. Also on the property are the contributing stuccoed brick dairy, smokehouse, well, and barn. In 1992, the Fletcher-Skinner-Nixon House was adapted for use as a bed and breakfast inn.

James H. Lamb House is a historic plantation house and complex located near Garland, Sampson County, North Carolina. The house was built about 1835, and is a 2+12-story, side hall plan, Greek Revival style frame dwelling. Also on the property are a number of contributing resources including a mule barn, smokehouse, wash house, dairy, corn crib, garage / carriage house, tobacco barns, she, and a family cemetery.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jesse Penny House and Outbuildings</span> Historic house in North Carolina, United States

Jesse Penny House and Outbuildings is a historic home and farm complex located near Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina. The Penny House was built in 1890, and enlarged in 1900. It is a two-story, single pile, frame I-house with a one-story rear addition. It features a hip-roofed wraparound porch. Also on the property are the contributing well house, barn/garage, barn, chicken house, and picket fence.

Henry H. and Bettie S. Knight Farm is a historic farm and national historic district located near Knightdale, Wake County, North Carolina. The district encompasses six contributing buildings on a family farm located near Knightdale. The farmhouse was built around 1890, and is a 1 1/2-story, Queen Anne style frame dwelling with a cross-gable roof and a series of later additions and alterations. The other contributing buildings are the dairy, storage building, storage shed, and two barns.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Homer Waldo Farm</span> Historic farm complex in Vermont

The Homer Waldo Farm is a historic farm complex on Waldo Lane in Wallingford, Vermont. Developed in the mid-19th century, it resembles a typical detached Vermont hillside farm complex, a contrast to the farms found further south on the valley floor of Otter Creek in southern Wallingford. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Fletcher–Fullerton Farm</span> United States historic place

Top Acres Farm, known historically as the Fletcher–Fullerton Farm, is a farm property at 1390 Fletcher Schoolhouse Road in Woodstock, Vermont. Developed as a farm in the early 19th century, it was in continuous agricultural use by just two families for nearly two centuries. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Locust Creek House Complex</span> Historic house in Vermont, United States

The Locust Creek House Complex is a historic former tavern turned farmstead at 4 Creek Road in Bethel, Vermont. Built in 1837 and enlarged in 1860, it is a rare surviving example of a rural tavern in the state, with an added complex of agriculture-related outbuildings following its transition to a new role. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It now houses residences.

The Dan Johnson Farmstead is a historic farm property on United States Route 2 in Williston, Vermont. It was first developed in 1787 by Dan Johnson, one of Williston's first settlers, and has remained in his family since that time. The property includes three 19th-century houses and a large barn complex, as well as more than 200 acres (81 ha) of land crossed by US 2 and Interstate 89. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">M. S. Whitcomb Farm</span> United States historic place

The M.S. Whitcomb Farm is a historic farm property on United States Route 2 in Richmond, Vermont. Established in the 1850s as a horse farm, it has seen agricultural use in some form since then. Its most distinguishing feature is a large bank barn with a monitor roof, built in 1901. The property, now 170 acres (69 ha), was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lareau Farmstead</span> United States historic place

Lareau Farm is a historic farm property at 48 Lareau Road in Waitsfield, Vermont. First settled in 1794 by Simeon Stoddard and his wife Abiah, two of the town's early settlers, the farmstead includes both a house and barn dating to that period. Now serving primarily as a bed and breakfast inn, the farm property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.

References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. Ellen Turco and April Montgomery (July 2001). "Wakefield Dairy Complex" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-06-01.