Coleman-White House, also known as Whitesome, is a historic home located at
Warrenton,
Warren County, North Carolina
Warren County is a county located in the northeastern Piedmont region of the U.S. state of North Carolina, on the northern border with Virginia, made famous for a landfill and birthplace of the environmental justice movement. As of the 2020 cen ...
. It was built between 1821 and 1824, and is a two-story, three bay,
late Federal style rectangular frame dwelling. It has a side gable roof, entrance porch with
Tuscan order
The Tuscan order (Latin ''Ordo Tuscanicus'' or ''Ordo Tuscanus'', with the meaning of Etruscan order) is one of the two classical orders developed by the Romans, the other being the composite order. It is influenced by the Doric order, but with u ...
columns, and exterior end chimneys. At the rear is an earlier -story frame dwelling with a gable roof. The front facade features a Palladian entrance with sidelights and Tuscan colonnettes and
Palladian window
Palladian architecture is a European architectural style derived from the work of the Venetian architect Andrea Palladio (1508–1580). What is today recognised as Palladian architecture evolved from his concepts of symmetry, perspective and ...
on the second level.
It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 1973.
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References
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
Federal architecture in North Carolina
Houses completed in 1824
Houses in Warren County, North Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Warren County, North Carolina
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