Fairntosh Plantation

Historic house in North Carolina, United States

United States historic place


Fairntosh
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

36°5′56″N 78°49′42″W / 36.09889°N 78.82833°W / 36.09889; -78.82833
Area	100 acres (40 ha)
Built	c. 1800 (1800)
Architectural style	Georgian, Federal
NRHP reference No.	73001337^[1]
Added to NRHP	April 3, 1973

Fairntosh Plantation is a historic plantation house and complex located near Durham, Durham County, North Carolina. It consists of two separate Georgian / Federal style houses joined in a "T"-shape. The rear section is older, and is a two-story, side hall plan structure with a center-hall plan. The larger section is a two-story, five bay by three bay structure. Also on the property are the contributing outbuildings including a two-story kitchen, slave quarters, smokehouse, dairy, office schoolhouse and other dependencies.^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Survey and Planning Unit Staff (September 1972). "Fairntosh Plantation" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-10-01.