Moses Rountree House Explained

Moses Rountree House
Coordinates:35.7339°N -77.9153°W
Built:c.
Builder:Oswald Lipscomb
Architecture:Gothic Revival; Colonial Revival
Added:April 26, 1982
Refnum:82003533

Moses Rountree House is a historic home located at Wilson, Wilson County, North Carolina. It was built about 1869, and is a two-story, three bays wide by two bays deep, Gothic Revival style frame house. It has a two-story rear ell. It has a steep gable roof and is sheathed in weatherboard. The house was moved in 1890 and about 1920, and was renovated in the 1930s adding Colonial Revival style design elements.[1]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Kate Ohno and Mary Shoemaker . Moses Rountree House . National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . September 1981. pdf . North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office . 2015-07-01.