Ward-Applewhite-Thompson House

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Ward-Applewhite-Thompson House
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LocationS side of SR 1539, near Stantonsburg, North Carolina
Coordinates 35°36′16″N77°47′47″W / 35.60444°N 77.79639°W / 35.60444; -77.79639
Area274 acres (111 ha)
Builtc. 1859 (1859), c. 1900
Architectural styleGreek Revival
MPS Wilson MRA
NRHP reference No. 86000695 [1]
Added to NRHPFebruary 13, 1986

Ward-Applewhite-Thompson House is a historic plantation house located near Stantonsburg, Wilson County, North Carolina. It was built about 1859, and is a boxy two-story, three-bay, double pile, Greek Revival style frame dwelling. It has a shallow hipped roof and wrap-around Colonial Revival style porch with Doric order columns added about 1900. Attached to the rear of the house is a gable roofed one-story kitchen connected by a breezeway. Also on the property are a number of contributing outbuildings including two packhouses, stable, and tobacco barns. [2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. [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. Kate Ohno (August 1982). "Ward-Applewhite-Thompson House" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-07-01.