Lake O'Woods

Lake O'Woods
Location S of Inez of SR 1512, near Inez, North Carolina
Coordinates 36°18′11″N 78°5′10″W / 36.30306°N 78.08611°W / 36.30306; -78.08611Coordinates: 36°18′11″N 78°5′10″W / 36.30306°N 78.08611°W / 36.30306; -78.08611
Area 75 acres (30 ha)
Built 1829 (1829), 1852
Built by Gamaliel Albert Jones
Architectural style Greek Revival
NRHP Reference # 79001760[1]
Added to NRHP January 19, 1979

Lake O'Woods, also known as the Edward and Rebecca Pitchford Davis House, is a historic plantation house located near Inez, Warren County, North Carolina. The main house was built by Albert Gamaliel Jones in 1852. It is a two-story, three bay by two bay, Greek Revival style frame dwelling. It has a shallow, overhanging hipped roof and entrance porch with fluted columns. Also on the property are the contributing earlier house or kitchen (c. 1790); four hole outhouse; a log chicken house; an early smokehouse and a later one of logs; a mounted farm bell; a well; and a collection of barns and stable.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Staff (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. Catherine W. Bishir and Joe Mobley (n.d.). "Lake O'Woods" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-06-01.


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