Elbert Crouse Farmstead
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| Location | S of Whitehead on Blue Ridge Parkway, Whitehead, North Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 36°25′6″N 81°8′44″W / 36.41833°N 81.14556°W |
| Area | 139 acres (56 ha) |
| NRHP reference No. | 82003423[1] |
| Added to NRHP | July 29, 1982 |
Elbert Crouse Farmstead is a historic home and farm located near Whitehead, Alleghany County, North Carolina. The farmhouse was built about 1905, and is a small log dwelling with a traditional two-room plan and an attic under a steeply pitched gable roof. Also on the property is a contributing frame barn, dated to the 1920s or 1930s, a small shed storage building with vertical board siding, a latticed gable roof structure that was originally a grave cover, a concrete block silo, the ruins of a small frame outbuilding, and the family cemetery. The Elbert Crouse Farmstead is representative of the small subsistence family farms in Western North Carolina.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Michael T. Southern and Jerry L. Cross (September 1981). "Brinegar Cabin" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-08-01.
Categories:
- Log houses in the United States
- Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
- Houses completed in 1905
- Houses in Alleghany County, North Carolina
- National Register of Historic Places in Alleghany County, North Carolina
- Log buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
- 1905 establishments in North Carolina
- Western North Carolina Registered Historic Place stubs