The Jesse Benbow House II is a historic house located near Oak Ridge,

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Description and history

It was built in 1858, and is a two-story, three-bay, double-pile 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 frame dwelling. It has a low hipped roof and has a long one-story gable-roofed rear ell. Also on the property are the contributing horse barn,

smokehouse A smokehouse (North American) or smokery (British) is a building where meat or fish is cured with smoke Smoke is a suspension of airborne particulates and gases emitted when a material undergoes combustion or pyrolysis, together with t ...

granary A granary is a storehouse or room in a barn for threshed grain or animal feed. Ancient or primitive granaries are most often made of pottery. Granaries are often built above the ground to keep the stored food away from mice and other animal ...

, woodshed or "summerhouse," greenhouse,

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, and large barn. It was listed on the

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on September 8, 1983. Rumored to be a stop on the underground railway, with a false wall and under house access in the library. All owners of the house signatures located under the main staircase, dating back to Jesse Benbow II.

References

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Greek Revival houses in North Carolina Houses completed in 1858 Houses in Guilford County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Guilford County, North Carolina {{GuilfordCountyNC-NRHP-stub