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Purefoy Chappell House and Outbuildings

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MPS
  
Wake County MPS

Area
  
4,000 m²

NRHP Reference #
  
08001016

Added to NRHP
  
22 October 2008

Purefoy-Chappell House and Outbuildings

Location
  
1255 S. Main St., Wake Forest, North Carolina

Built
  
c. 1838 (1838), c. 1862, c. 1895

Architectural style
  
Greek Revival, one-room house

Purefoy-Chappell House and Outbuildings is a historic home located at Wake Forest, Wake County, North Carolina. The house consists of four major sections: a 1 1/2-story, side-gable, single-pile main block with rear shed wing built about 1838; a two-story, side-gable, single-pile addition built about 1895 with vernacular Greek Revival-stylistic influences; a two-room side-gable kitchen / dining building dating to about 1838 that was connected to the main block and the addition by a one-story hyphen containing a modern kitchen added in 1974. Also on the property are the contributing smokehouse (c. 1838, c. 1900) and doctor's office (c. 1862).

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

References

Purefoy-Chappell House and Outbuildings Wikipedia