NRHP Reference # 79001688 Added to NRHP 24 October 1979 | Area 251 ha | |
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Location N of Yanceyville on NC 62, near Yanceyville, North Carolina Built 1855 (1855)-1856, 1928-1929 Architectural style Greek Revival architecture | ||
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Poteat House, also known as Forest Home, is a historic plantation house located near Yanceyville, Caswell County, North Carolina. It was built in 1855–1856, and consists of a two-story main block, three bays wide, with flanking one-story wings in the Greek Revival style. It has a center hall plan and was restored in 1928–1929 by Helen Poteat and her husband, author and playwright Laurence Stallings. It features a reconstructed double pedimented portico supported by four plain Roman Doric order columns. Also on the property is a contributing small slave cabin. The house was the birthplace of painter Ida Isabella Poteat.
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It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
Mobility is at the poteat house
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