Allen-Mangum House is a historic plantation house and national

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located near Grissom, Granville County, North Carolina. Built as the main residence and headquarters of an agricultural forced labor camp, the house includes a rear block was built about 1848 and a front block added about 1880. It is a two-story frame dwelling with

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, and Italianate style design elements. It has an I-house form and a two-story rear ell. It features a front porch with an exceptionally intricate, cutout screen of woodwork draped between the tops of square bracketed posts. Also on the property is the contributing family

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. It was listed on the

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in 1988.

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Plantation houses in North Carolina Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Greek Revival houses in North Carolina Italianate architecture in North Carolina Gothic Revival architecture in North Carolina Houses completed in 1848 Houses in Granville County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Granville County, North Carolina {{GranvilleCountyNC-NRHP-stub