Rufus Amis House and Mill


Rufus Amis House and Mill
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Nearest city	Virgilina, North Carolina
Area	32.7 acres (13.2 ha)
Built	c. 1855 (1855)
Architectural style	Greek Revival, Gothic Revival
MPS	Granville County MPS
NRHP Reference #	88000416^[1]
Added to NRHP	April 28, 1988

Rufus Amis House and Mill is a historic home and grist mill and national historic district located near Virgilina, Granville County, North Carolina. The house was built about 1855, and is a 1 1/2-story, "L"-shaped Gothic Revival / Greek Revival style frame dwelling. It has a roof with six gables and delicately sawn bargeboards. Also on the property are the contributing smokehouse, icehouse (later a striphouse), privy, barn, chicken house, corn crib, mill race, former dwelling, and 3 1/2-story grist mill.^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.^[1]

References

1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ Marvin A. Brown and Patricia Esperon (August 1987). "Rufus Amis House and Mill" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-11-01.

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