Built c. 1855 (1855) Area 4 ha | NRHP Reference # 75001286 Added to NRHP 29 May 1975 | |
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Location 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Jackson on US 158, near Jackson, North Carolina Architectural style Italian Villa, Tuscan Villa Mode | ||
Verona is a historic plantation house located near Jackson, Northampton County, North Carolina. It was built about 1855, and is a one-story, six bay, "T"-shaped, Italian Villa style frame dwelling. It has a hipped roof, is sheathed in weatherboard, and sits on a brick basement. It features a full-width porch, with flat sawnwork posts and delicate openwork brackets. Also on the property is the contributing family cemetery. The house was built for Matt Whitaker Ransom (1826-1904), Confederate brigadier general, United States senator, and minister to Mexico, and his wife Martha Exum.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
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