Cooke House (Louisburg, North Carolina)

Cooke House
Location SW of Louisburg near jct. of SR 1114 and SR 1109, near Louisburg, North Carolina
Coordinates 36°3′19″N 78°20′23″W / 36.05528°N 78.33972°W / 36.05528; -78.33972Coordinates: 36°3′19″N 78°20′23″W / 36.05528°N 78.33972°W / 36.05528; -78.33972
Area 5 acres (2.0 ha)
Built 1841 (1841)
Architectural style Greek Revival
NRHP Reference # 75001265[1]
Added to NRHP October 14, 1975

Cooke House is a historic plantation house located near Louisburg, Franklin County, North Carolina. The house was built about 1841, and consists of a two-story, three bay, Greek Revival style frame main block with a smaller earlier one-story section. It has brick exterior end chimneys with stepped shoulders and a wide hip-roof front porch. It was built by Jonas Cooke (1786-1872), whose son Charles M. Cooke (1844-1920) was a noted North Carolina politician.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.[1]

The historic Shemuel Kearney House (built 1759), originally located in Franklinton, currently sits next to the Cooke House. It was moved there in 2009 and reconstructed in 2015.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. Catherine W. Cockshutt (July 1975). "Cooke House" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-11-01.
  3. Old House Dreams - Cooke House, Louisburg, Retrieved Jan. 1, 2016.


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