Marion House and Marion Brothers Store also known as Jubal E. Marion—Richard Nathaniel Marion House and Oakcrest, is a historic home and general store located at Siloam,

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. The house was built over three periods in 1861, 1895, and 1913. It is a two-story, three bay, double pile, Classical Revival,

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style frame dwelling. The 1913 remodeling was by prominent Winston-Salem architect

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. It features a two-story,

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central

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and a one-story porch with Tuscan order columns that nearly encircles the house. The Marion Brothers Store was built about 1894, and is a two-story, brick commercial building. The property also includes the contributing wash house/smokehouse, a garage with a tool room/shop and a pump room, a fish pool, a carbide house, two chicken houses, a barn, a

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/ granary, and two tobacco barns. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. File:Marion Bros Store 95a 10-2-14.jpg, Marion Brothers Store

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Neoclassical architecture in North Carolina Houses completed in 1913 Commercial buildings completed in 1894 Houses in Surry County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Surry County, North Carolina 1913 establishments in North Carolina {{SurryCountyNC-NRHP-stub