Griffis-Patton House -- Original Outdoor Kitchent

Griffis-Patton House is a historic

plantation house A plantation house is the main house of a plantation, often a substantial farmhouse, which often serves as a symbol for the plantation as a whole. Plantation houses in the Southern United States and in other areas are known as quite grand and e ...

located near Mebane,

Alamance County, North Carolina Alamance County (), from the North Carolina Collection's website at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved September 18, 2012. is a county in North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 171,415. Its county seat ...

. It was built in 1839–1840, and is a two-story, five-bay, brick

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 a ...

style house. The front facade features a single story entrance porch with four original, rounded brick columns. Also on the property are the contributing one-story frame kitchen, a small one-story well house, and a small one-story frame shed roof chicken house, now used as a wood shed. It was added to 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 ...

in 1983.

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Plantation houses in North Carolina Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Greek Revival houses in North Carolina Houses completed in 1840 Houses in Alamance County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Alamance County, North Carolina {{AlamanceCountyNC-NRHP-stub