Lewis-Thornburg Farm

Lewis-Thornburg Farm

Lewis-Thornburg House, September 2014
Nearest city NC 1107, approximately 1.5 miles south of the junction with NC 1170, near Asheboro, North Carolina
Coordinates 35°36′59″N 79°56′41″W / 35.61639°N 79.94472°W / 35.61639; -79.94472Coordinates: 35°36′59″N 79°56′41″W / 35.61639°N 79.94472°W / 35.61639; -79.94472
Area 160.8 acres (65.1 ha)
Built c. 1855 (1855)-1950
Architectural style Center-passage single pile
NRHP Reference # 05000085[1]
Added to NRHP February 24, 2005

Lewis-Thornburg Farm, also known as the Thornburg Farm, is a historic home and farm complex near Asheboro, Randolph County, North Carolina. The farmhouse was built about 1855, and is a two-story, single-pile, three-bay, frame dwelling. It has a gable roof and a two-story rear ell, a one-story rear kitchen wing and a one-story enclosed rear porch. Other contributing resources are two grape arbors (c. 1950), a smokehouse (c. 1920), an equipment shed/garage (c. 1930), an outhouse (c. 1930), five chicken houses (c. 1930, c. 1950), a dog house and pen (c. 1950), pigeon boxes (c. 1950), two equipment sheds (c. 1950), a storage shed, a barn (c. 1900, c. 1950), a tack shed (c. 1950), a carriage house (c. 1900), a three-board fence (c. 1950), an animal chute (c. 1950), a hog shelter (c. 1950), a wood shed (c. 1950), a hog house (c. 1950), and the agricultural landscape.[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. Heather Fearnbach (August 2004). "Lewis-Thornburg Farm" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-02-01.


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