Evergreen, also known as the Callaway-Deyerle House, is an historic home located near Rocky Mount,

Franklin County, Virginia Franklin County is located in the Blue Ridge foothills of the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 54,477. Its county seat is Rocky Mount. Franklin County is part of the Roanoke Metropolitan Statistical Area ...

. The original section, now the rear ell, was built about 1840, is a two-story, two-bay, rectangular brick dwelling with a hipped roof in a vernacular

Greek Revival The Greek Revival was an architectural movement which began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and the United States and Canada, but ...

style. A two-story front section in the

Italianate The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style drew its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian R ...

style was added about 1861. A side gable and wing addition was built at the same time. Also on the property are a contributing

silo A silo (from the Greek σιρός – ''siros'', "pit for holding grain") is a structure for storing bulk materials. Silos are used in agriculture to store fermented feed known as silage, not to be confused with a grain bin, which is used t ...

(c. 1861), barn (c. 1920), and tenant house (c. 1930). an
''Accompanying two photos''
/ref> The silo on site is one of the earliest all brick grain silos in this part of the country. Part of the original estate was built by Benjamin Deyerle. 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 1999.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Houses completed in 1861 Greek Revival houses in Virginia Italianate architecture in Virginia Houses in Franklin County, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Franklin County, Virginia 1861 establishments in Virginia Brick buildings and structures in Virginia {{FranklinCountyVA-NRHP-stub