Purefoy-Dunn Plantation

E side US 1, .3 mi. N of US 1A, Wake Forest, North Carolina. County/parish: Wake.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places March 24, 1988. NRIS 88000238.

2 contributing buildings.

From Wikipedia:

Purefoy–Dunn Plantation

Purefoy–Dunn Plantation is a historic plantation and national historic district located near Wake Forest, Wake County, North Carolina. The Greek Revival style plantation house was built about 1814 and remodeled about 1850. It is a two-story, L-shaped, heavy timber frame building. It has a low hipped roof and is sheathed in clapboards. The front portico was removed in the 1960s or early 1970s. Also on the property is a contributing mid-19th century gable-roofed frame smokehouse.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722645