Address Restricted, Virgilina, North Carolina. County/parish: Granville.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places April 28, 1988. NRIS 88000416.
Part of Granville County MPS (NRIS 64500360).
7 contributing buildings. 1 contributing site. 2 contributing structures.
Rufus Amis House and Mill is a historic home and grist mill and national historic district located near Virgilina, Virginia in Granville County, North Carolina. The house was built about 1855, and is a 1+1⁄2-story, L-shaped Gothic Revival / Greek Revival style frame dwelling. It has a roof with six gables and delicately sawn bargeboards. Also on the property are the contributing smokehouse, icehouse (later a striphouse), privy, barn, chicken house, corn crib, mill race, former dwelling, and 3+1⁄2-story grist mill.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
Rufus Amis served in the North Carolina House of Representatives in 1879 and 1889 representing Granville County.
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