Kerr Scott Farm | |
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| Nearest city | N and S side of SR 2123, near Haw River, North Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 36°03′33″N 79°21′00″W / 36.05917°N 79.35000°W |
| Area | 243 acres (98 ha) |
| Built | 1919 |
| NRHP reference No. | 87001850[1] |
| Added to NRHP | October 31, 1987 |
Kerr Scott Farm, also known as Melville, is a historic home and farm located near Haw River, Alamance County, North Carolina. The vernacular farmhouse was built in 1919, and consists of a 1 1/2-story, frame, center hall plan, hip-roofed main block, with a one-story frame gable-roofed ell built about 1860. The property includes a variety of contributing outbuildings including a farm office (c. 1920s), milk house (c. 1920s), woodshed (c. 1930s), dairy barns (1910, 1929 and 1941), equipment building / machine shop (1941), cow shed (c. 1940s), gas / oil house (c. 1940s), corn crib (1910), silos, and cow sheds. It was the home of North Carolina governor and United States Senator, W. Kerr Scott (1896-1958) and the birthplace of W. Kerr Scott's son, also a former North Carolina governor, Robert W. Scott.[2]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.[1]
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References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Jerry Cross; Pat Dickinson; Cynthia Craig (1986). "Kerr Scott Farm" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-08-01.
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