Speed Farm
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Location | W side NC 1436 between NC 1432 and NC 1434, near Gupton, North Carolina |
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Coordinates | 36°11′17″N 78°11′26″W / 36.18806°N 78.19056°WCoordinates: 36°11′17″N 78°11′26″W / 36.18806°N 78.19056°W |
Area | 596 acres (241 ha) |
Built | c. 1847 |
Architectural style | I-house |
NRHP reference # | 91001907 |
Added to NRHP | December 27, 1991 |
Speed Farm is a historic farm complex and national historic district located near Gupton, Franklin County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 14 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 5 contributing structures. The farmhouse was built about 1847 and remodelled to its current configuration in 1900. It is a two-story, three bay, I-house style frame dwelling. It has a gable roof and an almost full-width front porch. Also on the property are the contributing milk house (c. 1847), smokehouse (c. 1847), kitchen (c. 1847), family cemetery, and an agricultural complex with a granary, ram tower (c. 1935), barn (c. 1840, 1850), corn cribs, hog shed, tobacco grading building (c. 1930), five tobacco barns (c. 1940), and a tenant house (c. 1935).
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.