Rose Hill (Grassy Creek, North Carolina)

Rose Hill
LocationNC 1442, near Grassy Creek, North Carolina
Coordinates36°31′20″N 78°36′35″W / 36.52222°N 78.60972°W / 36.52222; -78.60972
Area50 acres (20 ha)
Built1834 (1834)
Architectural styleGreek Revival
MPSGranville County MPS
NRHP reference No.88000415[1]
Added to NRHPApril 28, 1988

Rose Hill is a historic tobacco plantation house and national historic district located near Grassy Creek, Granville County, North Carolina. The house was built about 1834, and is a two-story, three bay by two bay, Greek Revival-style red brick dwelling. It has a low hipped roof and a Colonial Revival-style front porch added in the late-19th or early-20th century. Also on the property are the contributing garage, two frame corn cribs, four log tobacco barns, a log striphouse, a frame packhouse, and a tenant house.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Marvin A. Brown and Patricia Esperon (August 1987). "Rose Hill" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved November 1, 2014.