Built c. 1785 (1785) Area 4,000 m² Added to NRHP 21 October 1983 | NRHP Reference # 83001900 Nearest city Murfreesboro | |
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Francis Parker House, also known as Parker's Big Run or High House, is a historic home located near Murfreesboro, Northampton County, North Carolina. It was built about 1785, and is a 1 1/2-story, hall and parlor plan, Georgian style frame dwelling with a one-story rear wing. It has a gambrel roof, is sheathed in weatherboard, sits on a raised brick basement, and rebuilt massive paved double-shoulder exterior end chimneys. The house was moves to its present location in 1976. The contributing Vaughan house and pyramidal-roof frame dairy (formerly located in Hertford County near the Parker house), were also moved to the site.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
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