Shaw Family Farms

Shaw Family Farms
Location SR 1405, near Wagram, North Carolina
Coordinates 34°52′30″N 79°23′54″W / 34.87500°N 79.39833°W / 34.87500; -79.39833Coordinates: 34°52′30″N 79°23′54″W / 34.87500°N 79.39833°W / 34.87500; -79.39833
Area 584.3 acres (236.5 ha)
Built 1885 (1885)
Architectural style Greek Revival, Queen Anne
NRHP Reference # 83003999[1]
Added to NRHP October 13, 1983

Shaw Family Farms are historic family farms and a national historic district located near Wagram, Scotland County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 16 contributing buildings and 2 contributing structures. They include three houses: The Dr Daniel Shaw House, a large two-story, double-pile house with a dominant double tier gable portico built about 1885 with a Greek Revival interior; the Alexander Edwin Shaw House, a rambling one-story vernacular frame dwelling with an extensive Victorian wraparound porch also built about 1885; and the Dr. William Graham Shaw House, a one-story house of traditional local form, treated with a variety of simplified Queen Anne elements and built in 1900. Also on the farms are a number of contributing agricultural outbuildings.[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. Thomas Butchko; Davyd Foard Hood & Jim Sumner (October 1982). "Shaw Family Farms" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-05-01.


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