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.[2]
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| Location | West of Pittsboro on US 64, near Pittsboro, North Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 35°44′2″N 79°16′24″W / 35.73389°N 79.27333°W |
| Area | 26 acres (11 ha) |
| Built | 1790s |
| Architectural style | Greek Revival, Georgian, Federal |
| NRHP reference No. | 82003441[1] |
| Added to NRHP | July 29, 1982 |
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.[1]
See Elias Hall for a description of who built this house.[3]
References edit
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Charlotte V. Brown, and Jim Sumner (April 1981). "Aspen Hall" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-08-01.
- ^ Steeman, Lala Carr (1979). "Elias Hall". NCPEDIA.