Myrtle Lawn
Myrtle Lawn | |
  Location within North Carolina  Location within the United States | |
| Location | SR 1003, near Enfield, North Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 36°08′29″N 77°35′39″W / 36.14139°N 77.59417°W |
| Area | 12 acres (4.9 ha) |
| Built | c. 1816 |
| Architectural style | Federal |
| NRHP reference No. | 85001341[1] |
| Added to NRHP | June 20, 1985 |
Myrtle Lawn is a historic plantation house and national historic district located near Enfield, Halifax County, North Carolina. It encompasses seven contributing buildings and one contributing site, the farm landscape. The house was built about 1816 and expanded about 1850. It is a two-story, five-bay, Federal style frame dwelling. Also on the property are the contributing carriage house (1840s), an office (1858), a slave house, a vegetable storage structure, a dairy, and other food and storage buildings.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.[1]
References
[edit]- 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ↑ Catherine Bishir and Jerry Cross (April 1985). "Myrtle Lawn" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved January 1, 2015.
Categories:
- Plantation houses in North Carolina
- Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
- Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
- Federal architecture in North Carolina
- Houses completed in 1816
- Buildings and structures in Halifax County, North Carolina
- National Register of Historic Places in Halifax County, North Carolina
- 1816 establishments in North Carolina
- Eastern North Carolina Registered Historic Place stubs