Built 1808 (1808) Opened 1808 Architectural style Federal architecture | NRHP Reference # 71000583 Area 4 ha Added to NRHP 18 February 1971 | |
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Location 130 Bridgers St., Tarboro, North Carolina | ||
The Grove, also known as Blount-Bridgers House, is a historic home located at Tarboro, Edgecombe County, North Carolina. It was built about 1808, and is a two-story, five bay, Federal style frame dwelling. It has a gable roof and pairs of double-shouldered brick end chimneys. It was the home of Thomas Blount (1759 – 1812), an American Revolutionary War veteran and statesman.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. It is located in the Tarboro Historic District.
Edgecombe Arts is located in the Blount-Bridgers House, which features a permanent collection of works by Tarboro-born artist Hobson Pittman (1899-1972), including oil paintings, pastels, drawings, prints and watercolors. Blount-Bridgers House also exhibits locally-made period furniture and 19th-century paintings of such area painters as Thomas Sully, Thomas Landseer and William Garle Brown. The area also changing exhibits of contemporary artists.