Welch-Nicholson House and Mill Site

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Welch-Nicholson House and Mill Site
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LocationStatesville vicinity, near Houstonville, North Carolina
Coordinates 36°02′56″N80°46′11″W / 36.04889°N 80.76972°W / 36.04889; -80.76972 Coordinates: 36°02′56″N80°46′11″W / 36.04889°N 80.76972°W / 36.04889; -80.76972
Area15.3 acres (6.2 ha)
Builtc. 1795 (1795)
Architectural styleGeorgian, Federal
MPS Iredell County MRA
NRHP reference No. 80002858 [1]
Added to NRHPDecember 8, 1980

Welch-Nicholson House and Mill Site is a historic home and grist mill site located near Houstonville, Iredell County, North Carolina. The house was built about 1795, and is a two-story, one-room deep, transitional Georgian / Federal style frame dwelling. It has a gable roof, a double shouldered brick chimney, shed rooms across the rear, and a shed roofed front porch. Also on the property are contributing two-story frame barn, log corn crib, and the remains of the Welch-Nicholson House mill and dam. [2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. [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. Laura A. W. Phillips (February 1980). "Welch-Nicholson House and Mill Site" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-01-01.