Myrtle Lawn is a historic

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and national

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located near

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. It encompasses seven contributing buildings and one contributing site, the farm landscape. The house was built about 1816 and expanded about 1850. It is a two-story, five bay,

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style frame dwelling. Also on the property are the contributing

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(1840s), an office (1858), a slave house, a vegetable storage structure, a dairy, and other food and storage buildings. It was listed on the

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in 1985.

References

Plantation houses in North Carolina Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Federal architecture in North Carolina Houses completed in 1816 Buildings and structures in Halifax County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Halifax County, North Carolina 1816 establishments in North Carolina {{HalifaxCountyNC-NRHP-stub