Spurgeon House is a historic home near High Point,

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. It was built about 1854 and is a two-story frame dwelling with Late Federal 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 a ...

design elements. It has an irregular configuration with a -story wing and two-story addition. Also on the property are contributing outbuildings including a kitchen, slave house,

spring house A spring house, or springhouse, is a small building, usually of a single room, constructed over a spring. While the original purpose of a springhouse was to keep the spring water clean by excluding fallen leaves, animals, etc., the enclosing stru ...

smokehouse A smokehouse (North American) or smokery (British) is a building where meat or fish is cured with smoke. The finished product might be stored in the building, sometimes for a year or more.

, chickenhouse, two frame barns, a frame

carriage house A carriage house, also called a remise or coach house, is an outbuilding which was originally built to house horse-drawn carriages and the related tack. In Great Britain the farm building was called a cart shed. These typically were open ...

, and a log root cellar. It was added to the

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in 1983.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Federal architecture in North Carolina Greek Revival houses in North Carolina Houses completed in 1845 Houses in Davidson County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Davidson County, North Carolina {{DavidsonCountyNC-NRHP-stub