Crutchfield Crossroads is an unincorporated community in northwestern Chatham County, North Carolina north of the town of Siler City. Crutchfield Crossroads is commonly defined as the area in and around the rural intersection of Silk Hope-Liberty Road. and Siler City- Snow Camp Road. At the intersection of the two roads, there are some stores, but other than that the entire community is agricultural. Children living in this area attend schools in Silk Hope and Siler City.
Joseph McDonald Farm is a historic home and farm complex located near Prices Fork, Montgomery County, Virginia. The main house is a two-story, three bay, modified hall and parlor plan, log dwelling. The original section dates to about 1800. A two-story rear ell was added in the mid-19th century, and an addition to the ell was added in 1908. Also on the property are the contributing log spring house, one-story log house, and a board-and-batten outbuilding.
The Baldwin-Coker Cottage is a historic house at 266 Lower Lake Road in Highlands, North Carolina. The Rustic-style 1-1/2 story log house was designed and built in 1925 by James John Baldwin, an architect from Anderson, South Carolina. The cottage is important as a prototype for a number of later houses that were built by members of the construction crew. The walls are constructed of notched logs, whose ends project at random-length intervals, both at the corners of the house, and from the interior, where logs are also used to partition the inside space. The house is topped by a side-gable wood shingle roof. The main gable ends, and the gables of the dormers, are clad in board-and-batten siding. A porch with naturalistic limb-and-twig railings spans the width of the main facade.
St. Julien Plantation is a historic plantation complex located near Eutawville, Orangeburg County, South Carolina. The plantation house was built about 1854, and is a two-story, L-shaped, vernacular farmhouse with Italianate influences. It features a low-pitched hipped roof with projecting eaves and a bracketed cornice. Also on the property are the contributing log cotton warehouse, board and batten kitchen, Carpenter Gothic mule barn, smokehouse, garage, storage building, and several wood frame farm buildings.
Polly Fogleman House is a historic home located near Burlington, Alamance County, North Carolina. It was built about 1825, and is a tall 1 1/2-story log house measuring 24 feet, 9 inches by 16 feet. It has a rear shed roofed addition and stone and brick chimney. Also on the property are the contributing fruit drying kiln, a 1 1/2-story log storage building with an attached open woodshed, and a small log building.
Elbert Crouse Farmstead is a historic home and farm located near Whitehead, Alleghany County, North Carolina. The farmhouse was built about 1905, and is a small log dwelling with a traditional two-room plan and an attic under a steeply pitched gable roof. Also on the property is a contributing frame barn, dated to the 1920s or 1930s, a small shed storage building with vertical board siding, a latticed gable roof structure that was originally a grave cover, a concrete block silo, the ruins of a small frame outbuilding, and the family cemetery. The Elbert Crouse Farmstead is representative of the small subsistence family farms in Western North Carolina.
Walker's Inn is a historic building in rural Cherokee County, North Carolina. It is located at the northeast corner of the junction of SR 1505 and SR 1383 near Andrews. The house, appearing as a two-story five-bay frame house, was apparently built in stages, beginning c. 1844, after William Walker acquired the land on which it stands. The three rightmost bays of the house are a log structure, while the two on the left are a frame structure. The logs are partially exposed on the front, while most of the house is sheathed in board-and-batten siding. Windows are irregularly placed on the main facade. Long known as an inn, it sits along what was in the 19th century the major route between Franklin and Murphy. Frederick Law Olmsted stayed at the inn during his travels in the area in the late 19th century.
Dr. E. H. Ward Farm is a historic home and farm located near Bynum, Chatham County, North Carolina. The main house was built in sections during the mid-19th through early-20th century beginning about 1840. The earliest section is a 1 1/2-story, gable-roofed, two room log structure, that forms the rear of the main section. The main section was built about 1870, and is a one-story, gable-roofed frame structure with a simple gable-front porch. A one-story board-and-batten rear ell was added about 1900. Also on the property are the contributing office of Dr. Ward, carriage house and gear room, board-and-batten barn and log cribs, smokehouse and pen, and a small brick well house.
James A. Thomas Farm is a historic home and farm located near Pittsboro, Chatham County, North Carolina. The house consist of a one-story frame cabin, perhaps constructed during the late 1860s or early 1870s, with a rear shed and a two-story, vernacular Greek Revival style wing added in the early 1880s. Also on the property are several contributing log, weatherboard and board-and-batten outbuildings.
Old Town Plantation is a historic plantation house located near Battleboro, Edgecombe County, North Carolina. It was built about 1742, and is a 1 1/2-story, frame dwelling with a gambrel roof on a brick foundation. It features a double-shoulder Flemish bond chimney with small brick wings, and two other brick chimneys. The house has a hall-and-parlor plan. Also on the property is a contributing log storage house with a pyramidal roof and a board-and-batten door. The house was moved in 1983, to a new site less than one mile west of the original site.
Upper Town Creek Rural Historic District is a national historic district located near Wilson, in Edgecombe and Wilson County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 117 contributing buildings and 2 contributing structures on four contiguous farms near Wilson. The main plantation house on each farm are the Federal-style W. D. Petway House ; the Greek Revival house built for Colonel David Williams ; the house built for Cally S. Braswell ; and the board and batten Gothic Revival Jesse Norris House. The remaining contributing building and structures include packhouses, tobacco barns, tenant houses, and other agricultural outbuildings.
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.
Ivy Burne, also known as the John Murchison Hodges, Sr. House, is a historic home and farm complex and national historic district located near Linden, Harnett County, North Carolina. It encompasses eight contributing buildings and one contributing site on a rural farm complex. The farmhouse was built in stages between 1872 and 1910, and is a two-story, vernacular Italianate / Queen Anne frame dwelling. It features a shallow, hip roofed front porch. Also on the property are a board-and-batten kitchen, a plank smokehouse, a log corn crib and tobacco barn and a frame generator house.
Deane House, also known as Pritchard Farm, is a historic plantation house and farm located near Cofield, Hertford County, North Carolina. The house is a two-story, five bay Georgian period frame dwelling. It has a shed porch across the front, and a rear ell. Also on the property are the contributing small board-and-batten outbuilding, a large gable-roof outbuilding with additions, three gable-roof barns, and a rectangular well-house.
McLeod Family Rural Complex is a historic farm and national historic district located near Pine Bluff, Moore County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 10 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 3 contributing structures on a family farm established in the mid-19th century. It includes two houses: the John McLeod House is a largely intact, 1 1/2-story, frame dogtrot plan house dated to about 1840. The Alex McLeod House was built in 1884, and is a two-story, five bay, traditional frame farmhouse. Other contributing resources include two tobacco barns, a pack house, fertilizer house, barn with stables, corn crib, saddle-notched log house, chicken house, shed, root cellar, and smokehouse.
Futral Family Farm is a historic farm complex and national historic district located in Richlands, Onslow County, North Carolina. The main house was built about 1885, and is a one-story saddle-notched log hall-parlor plan dwelling. It was enlarged about 1906, with the addition of a frame garret, side room, rear shed rooms, and a semi-detached kitchen and dining room to form a coastal plain cottage with an engaged front porch.
Haystack Farm is a historic home and farm located near Oak Grove, Surry County, North Carolina. The farmhouse was built about 1885, and is a two-story, three-bay, gable roofed frame dwelling with a two-story rear ell. It has a full-width, hip roofed front porch and Italianate style design elements. Also on the property are the contributing gambrel-roof livestock barn, a board-and-batten frame packhouse, and a half-dovetail plank apple drying shed. The house was built by Christopher Wren Bunker, son of Chang and nephew of Eng Bunker.
Holbrook Farm is a historic farm complex located near Traphill, Wilkes County, North Carolina. The house was built about 1826, and is a vernacular two story, three bay frame dwelling with Federal style design elements. Also on the property are the contributing log granary, log spring house, a log smokehouse, a log corn crib, a frame barn, and a board-and-batten two-room school dormitory that once served the Trap Hill Institute and moved to the property in the early-20th century.
Daniel Nelson House and Barn, also known as the Nelson Pioneer Farm and Museum, are historic buildings located north of Oskaloosa, Iowa, United States. Daniel and Margaret Nelson settled here in 1844, a year after this part of Iowa was opened to settlement by the U.S. Government. Their first home was a log structure, non-extant, located northeast of the present house. The present house is a two-story, brick structure with a gable roof. The wooden porches on the front and back of the house date from 1898 to 1900. The large barn measures 61 by 46 feet, and was built in 1856. It is composed of board and batten construction from oak that was milled on the site. It was used largely as a granary, rather than a shelter for farm animals. Three other buildings included in the historic designation include the summer kitchen, woodshed, and a small outdoor privy. The dates of construction for the three frame buildings is unknown. The farm remained in the Nelson family until 1941 when it was abandoned with most of the original furnishings intact. The property was donated to the Mahaska County Historical Society, which now operates it as a museum. Other historic buildings have been moved to this location over the years. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
