Obediah Farrar House is a historic home located near

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Lee County, North Carolina Lee County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 63,285. The county seat is Sanford. It was established on March 6, 1907, from parts of Chatham and Moore counties, and named for G ...

. It was built in the 1850s, and is a two-story, three bay, mortise-and-tenon frame

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with

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style design elements. Also on the property is the contributing road segment and landscape. It was listed on the

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in 1993.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Greek Revival houses in North Carolina Houses completed in 1855 Houses in Lee County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Lee County, North Carolina {{LeeCountyNC-NRHP-stub