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Myrtle Lawn

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Built
  
c. 1816 (1816)

Area
  
5 ha

Added to NRHP
  
20 June 1985

NRHP Reference #
  
85001341

Architectural style
  
Federal architecture

Myrtle Lawn

Location
  
SR 1003, near Enfield, North Carolina

Similar
  
Cherry Hill Plantation, Fort Greene Park, Rose Hills Memorial Park

Myrtle Lawn is a historic plantation house and national historic district located near Enfield, Halifax County, North Carolina. It encompasses seven contributing buildings and one contributing site, the farm landscape. The house was built about 1816 and expanded about 1850. It is a two-story, five bay, Federal style frame dwelling. Also on the property are the contributing carriage house (1840s), an office (1858), a slave house, a vegetable storage structure, a dairy, and other food and storage buildings.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

References

Myrtle Lawn Wikipedia