Machpelah (Townsville, North Carolina)

Machpelah
Location 12079 NC 39, approx. 0.5 mi (1 km). S of Townsville, near Townsville, North Carolina
Coordinates 36°29′11″N 78°25′58″W / 36.48639°N 78.43278°W / 36.48639; -78.43278Coordinates: 36°29′11″N 78°25′58″W / 36.48639°N 78.43278°W / 36.48639; -78.43278
Area 323 acres (131 ha)
Built c. 1850 (1850), c. 1880
Built by Willie Newkirk
Architectural style Greek Revival, Queen Anne, et al.
NRHP Reference # 07000215[1]
Added to NRHP March 27, 2007

Machpelah, also known as Macpelah, McPelah, and the Robert B. Taylor Farm, is a historic home and farm located near Townsville, Vance County, North Carolina. The Edward O. Taylor House (was built about 1880, and is a two-story, "T"-shaped, vernacular frame dwelling with Greek Revival, Queen Anne, and Colonial Revival details. Also on the property are the contributing single-story, timber-frame Greek Revival plantation office building (c. 1850, c. 1900); oil house (c. 1900); well (c. 1900, c. 1950); salting house and dovecote; privy (c. 1900); henhouse (c. 1900); flower pit (c. 1920); 1 1/2-story modest Colonial Revival style guesthouse (1954); five tenant houses (c. 1890, c. 1910, c. 1920); feed house (c. 1900); two stables (c. 1900, c. 1950); corn crib (c. 1900); two cemeteries; and the farm landscape.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. Cynthia de Miranda and Alan Feduccia (August 2006). "Machpelah" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-08-01.


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