Cooke House is a historic plantation house located near Louisburg, Franklin County, North Carolina. The house was built about 1841, and consists of a two-story, three bay, Greek Revival style frame main block with a smaller earlier one-story section. It has brick exterior end chimneys with stepped shoulders and a wide hip-roof front porch. It was built by Jonas Cooke (1786-1872), whose son

Charles M. Cooke Charles Mather Cooke (10 March 1844 – 16 January 1920) was a North Carolina politician who served as Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives (1881) and as North Carolina Secretary of State (1895–1897). Cooke studied at W ...

(1844-1920) was a noted North Carolina politician. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. The historic Shemuel Kearney House (built 1759), originally located in Franklinton, currently sits next to the Cooke House. It was moved there in 2009 and reconstructed in 2015.Old House Dreams - Cooke House, Louisburg
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Plantation houses in North Carolina Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Houses completed in 1841 Greek Revival houses in North Carolina Houses in Franklin County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Franklin County, North Carolina {{FranklinCountyNC-NRHP-stub