Jump to content

Francis Parker House

Coordinates: 36°26′18″N 77°8′55″W / 36.43833°N 77.14861°W / 36.43833; -77.14861
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Francis Parker House
Francis Parker House is located in North Carolina
Francis Parker House
Francis Parker House is located in the United States
Francis Parker House
Nearest cityMurfreesboro, North Carolina
Coordinates36°26′18″N 77°8′55″W / 36.43833°N 77.14861°W / 36.43833; -77.14861
Area1 acre (0.40 ha)
Builtc. 1785 (1785)
Architectural styleGeorgian
NRHP reference No.83001900[1]
Added to NRHPOctober 21, 1983

Francis Parker House, also known as Parker's Big Run or High House, is a historic home located near Murfreesboro, North Carolina and Northampton County, North Carolina. It was built about 1785, and is a 1+12-story, hall and parlor plan, Georgian style frame dwelling with a one-story rear wing. It has a gambrel roof, is sheathed in weatherboard, sits on a raised brick basement, and rebuilt massive paved double-shoulder exterior end chimneys. The house was moves to its present location in 1976. The contributing Vaughan house and pyramidal-roof frame dairy (formerly located in Hertford County near the Parker house), were also moved to the site.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[1]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ John B. Parker (July 1982). "Francis Parker House" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-03-01.