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Machpelah (Townsville, North Carolina)

Coordinates: 36°29′11″N 78°25′58″W / 36.48639°N 78.43278°W / 36.48639; -78.43278
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Machpelah
Machpelah (Townsville, North Carolina) is located in North Carolina
Machpelah (Townsville, North Carolina)
Machpelah (Townsville, North Carolina) is located in the United States
Machpelah (Townsville, North Carolina)
Location12079 NC 39, approx. 0.5 mi (1 km). S of Townsville, near Townsville, North Carolina
Coordinates36°29′11″N 78°25′58″W / 36.48639°N 78.43278°W / 36.48639; -78.43278
Area323 acres (131 ha)
Builtc. 1850 (1850), c. 1880
Built byWillie Newkirk
Architectural styleGreek Revival, Queen Anne, et al.
NRHP reference No.07000215[1]
Added to NRHPMarch 27, 2007

Machpelah, also known as Macpelah, McPelah, and the Robert B. Taylor Farm, is a historic home and farm located near Townsville, Vance County, North Carolina. The Edward O. Taylor House was built about 1880, and is a two-story, T-shaped, vernacular frame dwelling with Greek Revival, Queen Anne, and Colonial Revival details. Also on the property are the contributing single-story, timber-frame Greek Revival plantation office building (c. 1850, c. 1900); oil house (c. 1900); well (c. 1900, c. 1950); salting house and dovecote; privy (c. 1900); henhouse (c. 1900); flower pit (c. 1920); 1+12-story modest Colonial Revival style guesthouse (1954); five tenant houses (c. 1890, c. 1910, c. 1920); feed house (c. 1900); two stables (c. 1900, c. 1950); corn crib (c. 1900); two cemeteries; and the farm landscape.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Cynthia de Miranda and Alan Feduccia (August 2006). "Machpelah" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-08-01.