Verona | |
 HABS diagram of the house | |
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| Location | 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Jackson on US 158, near Jackson, North Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 36°23′15″N 77°28′51″W / 36.38750°N 77.48083°W |
| Area | 9.5 acres (3.8 ha) |
| Built | c. 1855 |
| Architectural style | Italian Villa, Tuscan Villa Mode |
| NRHP reference No. | 75001286[1] |
| Added to NRHP | May 29, 1975 |
Verona is a historic plantation house located near Jackson, Northampton County, North Carolina. It was built about 1855, and is a one-story, six-bay, T-shaped, Italian Villa style frame dwelling. It has a hipped roof, is sheathed in weatherboard, and sits on a brick basement. It features a full-width porch, with flat sawnwork posts and delicate openwork brackets. Also on the property is the contributing family cemetery. The house was built for Matt Whitaker Ransom (1826-1904), Confederate brigadier general, United States senator, and minister to Mexico, and his wife Martha Exum.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.[1]
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References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ John Baxton Flowers, III and Catherine W. Cockshutt (March 1975). "Verona" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-03-01.
External links
- Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. NC-214, "Verona, U.S. Route 158, Jackson, Northampton County, NC", 10 measured drawings
This page was last edited on 3 January 2024, at 05:30