Henry Willis House, also known as Ehle House, is a historic home located near Penland,

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. It was built about 1880, and enlarged about 1890. It is a double-pen log house, with a weatherboarded log ell added after the turn of the 20th century. It was enlarged again about 1930 and in the 1980s. Also on the property is a contributing

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. It is one of the three traditional log homesteads in Mitchell County. It was added to the

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in 1988.

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