Palo Alto Plantation

SR 1434, Palopato, North Carolina. County/parish: Onslow.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places October 10, 1979. NRIS 79003338.

1 contributing building.

From Wikipedia:

Palo Alto Plantation (Palopato, North Carolina)

Palo Alto Plantation is a historic plantation house located at Palopato, Onslow County, North Carolina. It was built between about 1836 and 1840, and is a two-story, five-bay, double-pile frame dwelling with vernacular Federal and Greek Revival style design elements. It has a gable roof with cupola, two-tiered engaged porch, and Palladian windows on the gable ends. It was the childhood home of Daniel L. Russell Jr. (1845–1908), governor of North Carolina, 1897–1901.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721603