Verona (Jackson, North Carolina)

Verona
HABS diagram of the house
Location2 miles (3.2 km) west of Jackson on US 158, near Jackson, North Carolina
Coordinates36°23′15″N 77°28′51″W / 36.38750°N 77.48083°W / 36.38750; -77.48083
Area9.5 acres (3.8 ha)
Builtc. 1855 (1855)
Architectural styleItalian Villa, Tuscan Villa Mode
NRHP reference No.75001286[1]
Added to NRHPMay 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]

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ 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 March 1, 2015.