Oak Lawn is a historic plantation house and national

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located near Huntsboro, Granville County, North Carolina. The plantation house was built about 1820, and is a two-story, five-bay, transitional

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style heavy timber frame dwelling. Also on the property are the contributing one-room former dwelling,

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, barn, office, two-room kitchen, a small mortise and tenon barn and attached shed, a long frame packhouse, frame chicken barn, frame

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, and frame packhouse. It was listed on the

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in 1988.

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Plantation houses in North Carolina Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Georgian architecture in North Carolina Greek Revival houses in North Carolina Federal architecture in North Carolina Houses completed in 1820 Houses in Granville County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Granville County, North Carolina {{GranvilleCountyNC-NRHP-stub