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Wakefield Dairy Complex

Coordinates: 35°57′28″N 78°34′7″W / 35.95778°N 78.56861°W / 35.95778; -78.56861
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Wakefield Dairy Complex
Wakefield Dairy Complex is located in North Carolina
Wakefield Dairy Complex
Wakefield Dairy Complex is located in the United States
Wakefield Dairy Complex
Nearest cityWest side Falls of the Neuse Road (SR 2000), 1.2 miies north of Neuse River (12417 Falls of the Neuse Road), near Wake Forest, North Carolina
Coordinates35°57′28″N 78°34′7″W / 35.95778°N 78.56861°W / 35.95778; -78.56861
Area5 acres (2.0 ha)
Built1934 (1934)
Built byRich, S.O.
Architectural styleGothic-roofed barn
MPSWake County MPS
NRHP reference No.02001719[1]
Added to NRHPJanuary 15, 2003

Wakefield Dairy Complex is a historic commercial building associated with the Royall Mill and located at Wake Forest, Wake County, North Carolina. The complex was built in 1934, and consists of an 8,000 square foot, four-story, dairy barn with silos; a bull barn; and a calf barn. It was built to house John Sprunt Hill's Guernsey dairy herd.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Ellen Turco and April Montgomery (July 2001). "Wakefield Dairy Complex" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-06-01.