Speed Farm Explained

Speed Farm
Nrhp Type:hd
Nocat:yes
Location:W side NC 1436 between NC 1432 and NC 1434, near Gupton, North Carolina
Coordinates:36.1881°N -78.1906°W
Built:c.
Architecture:I-house
Added:December 27, 1991
Refnum:91001907

Speed Farm is a historic farm complex and national historic district located near Gupton, Franklin County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 14 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 5 contributing structures. The farmhouse was built about 1847 and remodelled to its current configuration in 1900. It is a two-story, three-bay, I-house style frame dwelling. It has a gable roof and an almost full-width front porch. Also on the property are the contributing milk house (c. 1847), smokehouse (c. 1847), kitchen (c. 1847), family cemetery, and an agricultural complex with a granary, ram tower (c. 1935), barn (c. 1840, 1850), corn cribs, hog shed, tobacco grading building (c. 1930), five tobacco barns (c. 1940), and a tenant house (c. 1935).[1]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Claudia Brown and Michael Hill . Speed Farm . National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . October 1991. pdf . North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office . 2014-11-01.