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Elbert Crouse Farmstead

Coordinates: 36°25′6″N 81°8′44″W / 36.41833°N 81.14556°W / 36.41833; -81.14556
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Elbert Crouse Farmstead
Elbert Crouse Farmstead is located in North Carolina
Elbert Crouse Farmstead
Elbert Crouse Farmstead is located in the United States
Elbert Crouse Farmstead
LocationS of Whitehead on Blue Ridge Parkway, Whitehead, North Carolina
Coordinates36°25′6″N 81°8′44″W / 36.41833°N 81.14556°W / 36.41833; -81.14556
Area139 acres (56 ha)
NRHP reference No.82003423[1]
Added to NRHPJuly 29, 1982

Elbert Crouse Farmstead is a historic home and farm located near Whitehead, Alleghany County, North Carolina. The farmhouse was built about 1905, and is a small log dwelling with a traditional two-room plan and an attic under a steeply pitched gable roof. Also on the property is a contributing frame barn, dated to the 1920s or 1930s, a small shed storage building with vertical board siding, a latticed gable roof structure that was originally a grave cover, a concrete block silo, the ruins of a small frame outbuilding, and the family cemetery. The Elbert Crouse Farmstead is representative of the small subsistence family farms in Western North Carolina.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Michael T. Southern and Jerry L. Cross (September 1981). "Brinegar Cabin" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-08-01.