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Kelvin (Pittsboro, North Carolina)

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Area
  
less than one acre

NRHP Reference #
  
82001286

Added to NRHP
  
5 October 1982

MPS
  
Pittsboro MRA

Architectural style
  
Federal architecture

Kelvin (Pittsboro, North Carolina)

Location
  
503 W. Salisbury St., Pittsboro, North Carolina

Built
  
c. 1831 (1831), c. 1838

Kelvin was a historic home located at Pittsboro, Chatham County, North Carolina. It was built about 1831, was a two-story, five bay Federal style single pile frame dwelling. The house had a gable roof and exterior end chimneys. It had a one-story addition built about 1838. It originally housed a private girls school established by wealthy landowner Colonel Edward Jones Kelvin. It has been demolished.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

References

Kelvin (Pittsboro, North Carolina) Wikipedia