Joseph Freeman Farm Explained

Joseph Freeman Farm
Nrhp Type:hd
Nocat:yes
Coordinates:36.5386°N -76.7886°W
Built:c., 1915
Builder:Joseph Freeman
Architecture:Federal, Queen Anne
Added:November 12, 1999
Refnum:99001333

Joseph Freeman Farm is a historic farm complex and national historic district located near Gates, Gates County, North Carolina. The district encompasses six contributing buildings, one contributing site, and three contributing structures. The main house was built about 1821, and is a two-story, two-bay dwelling in a transitional Georgian / Federal style. A separate two-room kitchen/dining room ell was added about 1915. Associated with the house are the contributing smokehouse (c. 1935), privy (c. 1935), pump house (c. 1947), and domestic well (19th century). Contributing farm outbuildings include the lot well (c. 1915), equipment shelter (c. 1920), feed and livestock barn (c. 1920), and slave / tenant house (mid- to late-19th century).[1]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Drucilla H. York and Jim Sumner . Joseph Freeman Farm . National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . June 1999. pdf . North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office . 2014-11-01.