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Robert Cleveland Log House

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Built
  
1780 (1780)

NRHP Reference #
  
72001003

Area
  
8,000 m²

Architectural style
  
Two-Pen Style

Opened
  
1780

Added to NRHP
  
1 February 1972

Robert Cleveland Log House

Location
  
100 E Main St, Wilkesboro, North Carolina

Robert Cleveland Log House is a historic home located at the Wilkes Heritage Museum in Wilkesboro, Wilkes County, North Carolina. It was originally located east of Purlear near jct. of SR 1300 and 1317 and moved to its present location in 1986. It was built about 1780, and is large two-pen log dwelling with exterior end stone chimneys and an uncoursed stone basement. It was built by Revolutionary War veteran Captain Robert Cleveland, brother of Colonel Benjamin Cleveland, and is probably the oldest dwelling in Wilkes County.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

References

Robert Cleveland Log House Wikipedia