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 Staff (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. Thomas Butchko, Davyd Foard Hood, and 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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