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Oak Lawn (Huntsboro, North Carolina)

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Oak Lawn
Nearest cityHuntsboro, North Carolina
Area55 acres (22 ha)
Builtc. 1820 (1820)
Architectural styleGreek Revival, Georgian, Federal
MPSGranville County MPS
NRHP reference No.88000408[1]
Added to NRHPApril 28, 1988

Oak Lawn is a historic plantation house and national historic district located near Huntsboro, Granville County, North Carolina. The plantation house was built about 1820, and is a two-story, five-bay, transitional Federal / Georgian / Greek Revival style heavy timber frame dwelling. Also on the property are the contributing one-room former dwelling, smokehouse, barn, office, two-room kitchen, a small mortise and tenon barn and attached shed, a long frame packhouse, frame chicken barn, frame corn crib, and frame packhouse.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Marvin Brown and Patricia Esperon (August 1987). "Oak Lawn" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved November 1, 2014.