Porter Houses and Armstrong Kitchen


Porter Houses and Armstrong Kitchen
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Show map of North Carolina Show map of the US
Location	821 Wells Rd., near Whitakers, North Carolina
Coordinates	36°3′55″N 77°40′1″W / 36.06528°N 77.66694°W / 36.06528; -77.66694Coordinates: 36°3′55″N 77°40′1″W / 36.06528°N 77.66694°W / 36.06528; -77.66694
Area	1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built	c. 1850 (1850), c. 1900
Architectural style	Gambrel-roofed house
NRHP Reference #	02000988^[1]
Added to NRHP	September 14, 2002

Porter Houses and Armstrong Kitchen is a set of two historic homes and a kitchen building located near Whitakers, Edgecombe County, North Carolina. The first Porter dwelling dates to the last quarter of the 18th century, and is a 1 1/2-story frame dwelling with a gambrel roof. It was restored in 1994. The second Porter dwelling also dates to the last quarter of the 18th century, and is a one-room, 1 1/2-story frame dwelling with a gable roof. It measures approximately 16 feet wide and 24 feet long. Also on the property is a frame kitchen building built about 1850 and remodeled about 1900.^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.^[1]

References

1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ Heather Fearnbach (February 2002). "Porter Houses and Armstrong Kitchen" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-11-01.

U.S. National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina

Topics	Contributing property Keeper of the Register Historic district History of the National Register of Historic Places National Park Service Property types

Lists by county	Alamance Alexander Alleghany Anson Ashe Avery Beaufort Bertie Bladen Brunswick Buncombe Burke Cabarrus Caldwell Camden Carteret Caswell Catawba Chatham Cherokee Chowan Clay Cleveland Columbus Craven Cumberland Currituck Dare Davidson Davie Duplin Durham Edgecombe Forsyth Franklin Gaston Gates Graham Granville Greene Guilford Halifax Harnett Haywood Henderson Hertford Hoke Hyde Iredell Jackson Johnston Jones Lee Lenoir Lincoln Macon Madison Martin McDowell Mecklenburg Mitchell Montgomery Moore Nash New Hanover Northampton Onslow Orange Pamlico Pasquotank Pender Perquimans Person Pitt Polk Randolph Richmond Robeson Rockingham Rowan Rutherford Sampson Scotland Stanly Stokes Surry Swain Transylvania Tyrrell Union Vance Wake Warren Washington Watauga Wayne Wilkes Wilson Yadkin Yancey

Other lists	Bridges National Historic Landmarks

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/30/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.