Joseph P. Hunt Farm Explained

Joseph P. Hunt Farm
Nrhp Type:hd
Nocat:yes
Location:NC 1514, near Dexter, North Carolina
Coordinates:36.1389°N -78.6672°W
Built:c.
Builder:Laurie Breedlove
Architecture:Greek Revival
Added:August 31, 1988
Refnum:88001265

Joseph P. Hunt Farm is a historic tobacco farm complex and national historic district located near Dexter, Granville County, North Carolina. The farmhouse was built about 1844, and is a two-story, three-bay, Greek Revival style dwelling. It has a two-story rear ell dated to the 1870s and a full-width front porch added in the 1920s. Also on the property are the contributing small frame outbuilding, potato house, corn crib, two tobacco barns, smokehouse, large horse barn, packhouse, and combination icehouse/carriage house. Also on the property is the site of Breedlove Mill.[1]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Marvin A. Brown and Patricia Esperon . Joseph P. Hunt Farm . National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . December 1987. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office . 2014-11-01.