Rose Hill (Grassy Creek, North Carolina)

Rose Hill
Location NC 1442, near Grassy Creek, North Carolina
Coordinates 36°31′20″N 78°36′35″W / 36.52222°N 78.60972°W / 36.52222; -78.60972Coordinates: 36°31′20″N 78°36′35″W / 36.52222°N 78.60972°W / 36.52222; -78.60972
Area 50 acres (20 ha)
Built 1834 (1834)
Architectural style Greek Revival
MPS Granville County MPS
NRHP Reference # 88000415[1]
Added to NRHP April 28, 1988

Rose Hill is a historic tobacco plantation house and national historic district located near Grassy Creek, Granville County, North Carolina. The house was built about 1834, and is a two-story, three bay by two bay, Greek Revival style red brick dwelling. It has a low hipped roof and a Colonial Revival style front porch added in the late-19th or early-20th century. Also on the property are the contributing garage, two frame corn cribs, four log tobacco barns, a log striphouse, a frame packhouse, and a tenant house.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Staff (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. Marvin A. Brown and Patricia Esperon (August 1987). "Rose Hill" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-11-01.


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