Verona (Jackson, North Carolina)


Verona
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	2 miles (3.2 km) west of Jackson on US 158, near Jackson, North Carolina
Coordinates	36°23′15″N 77°28′51″W / 36.38750°N 77.48083°W / 36.38750; -77.48083Coordinates: 36°23′15″N 77°28′51″W / 36.38750°N 77.48083°W / 36.38750; -77.48083
Area	9.5 acres (3.8 ha)
Built	c. 1855 (1855)
Architectural style	Italian Villa, Tuscan Villa Mode
NRHP Reference #	75001286^[1]
Added to NRHP	May 29, 1975

Verona is a historic plantation house located near Jackson, Northampton County, North Carolina. It was built about 1855, and is a one-story, six bay, "T"-shaped, Italian Villa style frame dwelling. It has a hipped roof, is sheathed in weatherboard, and sits on a brick basement. It features a full-width porch, with flat sawnwork posts and delicate openwork brackets. Also on the property is the contributing family cemetery. The house was built for Matt Whitaker Ransom (1826-1904), Confederate brigadier general, United States senator, and minister to Mexico, and his wife Martha Exum.^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.^[1]

References

1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ John Baxton Flowers, III and Catherine W. Cockshutt (March 1975). "Verona" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-03-01.

External links

Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. NC-214, "Verona, U.S. Route 158, Jackson, Northampton County, NC", 10 measured drawings

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

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