NRHP Reference # 88000414 Year built 1835 | MPS Granville County MPS Area 4 ha Added to NRHP 28 April 1988 | |
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Location NC 1524, near Huntsboro, North Carolina |
Col. Richard P. Taylor House is a historic plantation complex and national historic district located near Huntsboro, Granville County, North Carolina. The plantation house was built about 1835, and is a tall two-story, five bay, transitional Federal / Greek Revival style frame dwelling. It has a one-story rear ell, exterior end chimneys, and a full-height brick basement. The house is nearly identical to that built by Col. Richard Taylor's half-brother, the Archibald Taylor Plantation House. Also on the property are the contributing early mortise and tenon smokehouse, a pigeon house or tobacco packhouse, an air-cure tobacco barn, a frame corn crib, and two log tobacco barns.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
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Col. Richard P. Taylor House Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA