Francis Parker House


Francis Parker House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Nearest city	Murfreesboro, North Carolina
Coordinates	36°26′18″N 77°8′55″W / 36.43833°N 77.14861°W / 36.43833; -77.14861Coordinates: 36°26′18″N 77°8′55″W / 36.43833°N 77.14861°W / 36.43833; -77.14861
Area	1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built	c. 1785 (1785)
Architectural style	Georgian
NRHP Reference #	83001900^[1]
Added to NRHP	October 21, 1983

Francis Parker House, also known as Parker's Big Run or High House, is a historic home located near Murfreesboro, Northampton County, North Carolina. It was built about 1785, and is a 1 1/2-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

1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ 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.

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