Wildwood, also known as the Monroe Long House and Taylor Long Homeplace, is a historic home located near Semora,

Caswell County, North Carolina Caswell County is a county in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is located in the Piedmont Triad region of the state. At the 2020 census, the population was 22,736. Its county seat is Yanceyville. Partially bordering the state of Virginia, ...

. It was built in 1893, and is a two-story, frame "T"-shaped

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 ...

. It has a two-story rear service wing. It sits on a brick foundation and is sheathed in weatherboard. It has Queen Anne and

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 design elements. Also on the property are a contributing

smokehouse A smokehouse (North American) or smokery (British) is a building where meat or fish is cured with smoke Smoke is a suspension of airborne particulates and gases emitted when a material undergoes combustion or pyrolysis, together with t ...

(c. 1895) and two original log tobacco barns (c. 1890). It was added to the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 1986.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Greek Revival houses in North Carolina Queen Anne architecture in North Carolina Houses completed in 1893 Houses in Caswell County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Caswell County, North Carolina {{CaswellCountyNC-NRHP-stub