Old Battle Bridge Rd., 0.4 mi. S of jct. with Old Tarboro Rd., Eagle Rock, North Carolina. County/parish: Wake.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places April 29, 1999. NRIS 99000509.
Part of Wake County MPS (NRIS 64500376).
12 contributing buildings. 6 contributing sites. 1 contributing structure.
The Hood–Anderson Farm is a historic home and farm and national historic district located at Eagle Rock, Wake County, North Carolina, a suburb of the state capital Raleigh. The main house was built about 1839, and is an example of transitional Federal / Greek Revival style I-house. It is two stories with a low-pitched hip roof and a rear two-story, hipped-roof ell. The front facade features a large, one-story porch, built in 1917, supported by Tuscan order columns. Also on the property are the contributing combined general store and post office (1854), a one-room dwelling, a two-room tenant/slave house, a barn (1912), a smokehouse, and several other outbuildings and sites including a family cemetery.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718519