Watson-Sanders House is a historic home located near Smithfield,

Johnston County, North Carolina Johnston County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 215,999. Its county seat is Smithfield. Johnston County is included in the Raleigh, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is ...

. It was built about 1820, and is a two-story, three-bay, frame

I-house The I-house is a vernacular house type, popular in the United States from the colonial period onward. The I-house was so named in the 1930s by Fred Kniffen, a cultural geographer at Louisiana State University who was a specialist in folk archit ...

dwelling. It has a double engaged front piazza, an original rear shed piazza. The interior was remodeled in the

Greek Revival The Greek Revival was an architectural movement which began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and the United States and Canada, but ...

style, when the house was moved to its present site in 1854. It was listed on the

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in 2001.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Greek Revival houses in North Carolina I-houses in North Carolina Houses completed in 1820 Houses in Johnston County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Johnston County, North Carolina {{JohnstonCountyNC-NRHP-stub