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Porter Houses and Armstrong Kitchen

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Architectural style
  
Gambrel-roofed house

Area
  
4,000 m²

NRHP Reference #
  
02000988

Added to NRHP
  
14 September 2002

Porter Houses and Armstrong Kitchen

Location
  
821 Wells Rd., near Whitakers, North Carolina

Built
  
c. 1850 (1850), c. 1900

Porter Houses and Armstrong Kitchen is a set of two historic homes and a kitchen building located near Whitakers, Edgecombe County, North Carolina. The first Porter dwelling dates to the last quarter of the 18th century, and is a 1 1/2-story frame dwelling with a gambrel roof. It was restored in 1994. The second Porter dwelling also dates to the last quarter of the 18th century, and is a one-room, 1 1/2-story frame dwelling with a gable roof. It measures approximately 16 feet wide and 24 feet long. Also on the property is a frame kitchen building built about 1850 and remodeled about 1900.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

References

Porter Houses and Armstrong Kitchen Wikipedia