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Tillery-Fries House, also known as Conoconnara Hall, The Mansion, and Oak Grove, is a historic plantation complex located near Tillery, Halifax County, North Carolina. The
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-style main house was built about 1800, and enlarged and remodeled about 1891 in the Colonial Revival style. It is a large, two-story with attic gable-roofed, frame dwelling with a two-story wing. It features full-facade one-story porches at the front and rear of the house supported by full
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columns. Also on the property are the contributing
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, dairy, storage shed, overseer's house (c. 1800), and manager's cottage. It was listed on the
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in 1992.


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Plantation houses in North Carolina Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Federal architecture in North Carolina Colonial Revival architecture in North Carolina Houses completed in 1800 Houses in Halifax County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Halifax County, North Carolina {{HalifaxCountyNC-NRHP-stub