210 S. Selma Rd., Wendell, North Carolina. County/parish: Wake.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places October 15, 2001. NRIS 01001113.
Part of Wake County MPS (NRIS 64500376).
4 contributing buildings. 2 contributing objects.Also known as:
Sunnyside, also known as the R.B. Whitley House, is a historic home located in Wendell, North Carolina, a town in eastern Wake County. The Craftsman house was built in 1918 by R. B. Whitley, a prominent Wendell businessman who founded the Bank of Wendell in 1907.
The brick home features car shelters on the front and side, a modern detail during the 1910s. In addition to the home, a wash house, smokehouse, garage, and four entrance pillars are located on the property. According to family tradition, Sunnyside was used as a hospital during the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918.
Sunnyside was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in October 2001.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718651