Joseph P. Hunt Farm

Historic farm in North Carolina, United States

United States historic place


Joseph P. Hunt Farm
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district

36°08′20″N 78°40′02″W / 36.13889°N 78.66722°W / 36.13889; -78.66722
Area	81 acres (33 ha)
Built	c. 1844 (1844)
Built by	Laurie Breedlove
Architectural style	Greek Revival
MPS	Granville County MPS
NRHP reference No.	88001265^[1]
Added to NRHP	August 31, 1988

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.^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Marvin A. Brown and Patricia Esperon (December 1987). "Joseph P. Hunt Farm" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved November 1, 2014.