Coats House is a historic home located at

Tarboro Tarboro is a town located in Edgecombe County, North Carolina, Edgecombe County, North Carolina, United States. It is part of the Rocky Mount, North Carolina, Rocky Mount Rocky Mount metropolitan area, Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2020 ...

, Edgecombe County, North Carolina. It was built about 1860, and is a two-story, three bays wide,

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style brick dwelling. It features a hipped roof with wide, overhanging eaves and a

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and four interior end chimneys. Also on the property are the contributing brick kitchen and a frame

smokehouse A smokehouse (North American) or smokery (British) is a building where meat or fish is cured with smoke Smoke is a suspension of airborne particulates and gases emitted when a material undergoes combustion or pyrolysis, together with t ...

. Its builder, Thomas H. Coats, also built the Calvary Episcopal Church and First Baptist Church in

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. It was listed on the

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in 1973. It is located in the

Tarboro Historic District Tarboro Historic District is a national historic district located near Tarboro, Edgecombe County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 364 contributing buildings in central Tarboro. It includes a variety of industrial, commercial, residentia ...

References

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Houses completed in 1860 Houses in Edgecombe County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Edgecombe County, North Carolina Individually listed contributing properties to historic districts on the National Register in North Carolina 1860 establishments in North Carolina {{EdgecombeCountyNC-NRHP-stub