Elbert Crouse Farmstead | |
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Location | S of Whitehead on Blue Ridge Parkway, Whitehead, North Carolina |
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Coordinates | 36°25′6″N 81°8′44″W / 36.41833°N 81.14556°W |
Area | 139 acres (56 ha) |
NRHP reference No. | 82003423 [1] |
Added to NRHP | July 29, 1982 |
Elbert Crouse Farmstead is a historic home and farm located near Whitehead, Alleghany County, North Carolina. The farmhouse was built about 1905, and is a small log dwelling with a traditional two-room plan and an attic under a steeply pitched gable roof. Also on the property is a contributing frame barn, dated to the 1920s or 1930s, a small shed storage building with vertical board siding, a latticed gable roof structure that was originally a grave cover, a concrete block silo, the ruins of a small frame outbuilding, and the family cemetery. The Elbert Crouse Farmstead is representative of the small subsistence family farms in Western North Carolina. [2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. [1]
Elbert Crouse Farmstead | |
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Location | S of Whitehead on Blue Ridge Parkway, Whitehead, North Carolina |
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Coordinates | 36°25′6″N 81°8′44″W / 36.41833°N 81.14556°W |
Area | 139 acres (56 ha) |
NRHP reference No. | 82003423 [1] |
Added to NRHP | July 29, 1982 |
Elbert Crouse Farmstead is a historic home and farm located near Whitehead, Alleghany County, North Carolina. The farmhouse was built about 1905, and is a small log dwelling with a traditional two-room plan and an attic under a steeply pitched gable roof. Also on the property is a contributing frame barn, dated to the 1920s or 1930s, a small shed storage building with vertical board siding, a latticed gable roof structure that was originally a grave cover, a concrete block silo, the ruins of a small frame outbuilding, and the family cemetery. The Elbert Crouse Farmstead is representative of the small subsistence family farms in Western North Carolina. [2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. [1]