Kerr Scott Farm Explained

Kerr Scott Farm
Nearest City:N and S side of SR 2123, near Haw River, North Carolina
Coordinates:36.0592°N -79.35°W
Added:October 31, 1987
Refnum:87001850

Kerr Scott Farm, also known as Melville, is a historic home and farm located near Haw River, Alamance County, North Carolina. The vernacular farmhouse was built in 1919, and consists of a 1 1/2-story, frame, center hall plan, hip-roofed main block, with a one-story frame gable-roofed ell built about 1860. The property includes a variety of contributing outbuildings including a farm office (c. 1920s), milk house (c. 1920s), woodshed (c. 1930s), dairy barns (1910, 1929 and 1941), equipment building / machine shop (1941), cow shed (c. 1940s), gas / oil house (c. 1940s), corn crib (1910), silos, and cow sheds. It was the home of North Carolina governor and United States Senator, W. Kerr Scott (1896-1958) and the birthplace of W. Kerr Scott's son, also a former North Carolina governor, Robert W. Scott.[1]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Jerry Cross . Pat Dickinson . Cynthia Craig . Kerr Scott Farm. National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . 1986. pdf . North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office . 2014-08-01.