Speed Farm

Speed Farm
Location W side NC 1436 between NC 1432 and NC 1434, near Gupton, North Carolina
Coordinates 36°11′17″N 78°11′26″W / 36.18806°N 78.19056°W / 36.18806; -78.19056Coordinates: 36°11′17″N 78°11′26″W / 36.18806°N 78.19056°W / 36.18806; -78.19056
Area 596 acres (241 ha)
Built c. 1847 (1847)
Architectural style I-house
NRHP Reference # 91001907[1]
Added to NRHP December 27, 1991

Speed Farm is a historic farm complex and national historic district located near Gupton, Franklin County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 14 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 5 contributing structures. The farmhouse was built about 1847 and remodelled to its current configuration in 1900. It is a two-story, three bay, I-house style frame dwelling. It has a gable roof and an almost full-width front porch. Also on the property are the contributing milk house (c. 1847), smokehouse (c. 1847), kitchen (c. 1847), family cemetery, and an agricultural complex with a granary, ram tower (c. 1935), barn (c. 1840, 1850), corn cribs, hog shed, tobacco grading building (c. 1930), five tobacco barns (c. 1940), and a tenant house (c. 1935).[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Staff (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. Claudia Brown and Michael Hill (October 1991). "Speed Farm" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-11-01.


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