W of Pittsboro on US 64, Pittsboro, North Carolina. County/parish: Chatham.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places July 29, 1982. NRIS 82003441.
4 contributing buildings.
Aspen Hall is a historic plantation house located near Pittsboro, Chatham County, North Carolina. The original section was built in the 1790s, and took its present form between about 1830 and 1840. It is a two-story, weatherboarded gable roofed Federal style frame house, with a Greek Revival style facade. It was built by Joseph John "Chatham Jack" Alston, who enslaved as many as 163 people and also built the nearby Alston-DeGraffenried Plantation.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
See Elias Hall for a description of who built this house.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719543