Brown-Graves House and Brown's Store


Brown-Graves House and Brown's Store
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	SW of Yanceyville on NC 150, near Locust Hill, North Carolina
Coordinates	36°21′36″N 79°27′04″W / 36.36000°N 79.45111°W / 36.36000; -79.45111Coordinates: 36°21′36″N 79°27′04″W / 36.36000°N 79.45111°W / 36.36000; -79.45111
Area	9.5 acres (3.8 ha)
Built	c. 1800 (1800)
Architectural style	Georgian, Late Georgian
NRHP Reference #	74001334^[1]
Added to NRHP	July 15, 1974

Brown-Graves House and Brown's Store is a historic plantation complex located near Locust Hill, Caswell County, North Carolina. The plantation house was built about 1800, and is a two-story, five bay, Late Georgian style frame dwelling. It is set on a stone basement and has a low hipped roof. The front facade features a one-story pedimented porch with Corinthian order columns. Brown's Store is located across from the house and is a one-story, gabled frame building with a single shouldered stone and brick chimney. Also on the property are the contributing two slave quarters, a smoke house, and a Greek Revival period law office.^[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.^[1]

References

1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ Survey and Planning Unit (November 1973). "Brown-Graves House and Brown's Store" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-08-01.

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