Lake O'Woods explained

Lake O'Woods
Location:S of Inez of SR 1512, near Inez, North Carolina
Coordinates:36.3031°N -78.0861°W
Built:, 1852
Builder:Gamaliel Albert Jones
Architecture:Greek Revival
Added:January 19, 1979
Refnum:79001760

Lake O'Woods, also known as the Edward and Rebecca Pitchford Davis House, is a historic plantation house located near Inez, Warren County, North Carolina. The main house was built by Albert Gamaliel Jones in 1852. It is a two-story, three bay by two bay, Greek Revival style frame dwelling. It has a shallow, overhanging hipped roof and entrance porch with fluted columns. Also on the property are the contributing earlier house or kitchen (c. 1790); four hole outhouse; a log chicken house; an early smokehouse and a later one of logs; a mounted farm bell; a well; and a collection of barns and stable.[1]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Catherine W. Bishir and Joe Mobley. Lake O'Woods. National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . n.d. . North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office . 2015-06-01.