Poteat House

Historic house in North Carolina, United States

United States historic place


Poteat House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Poteat House, HABS Photo, 1938
36°25′11″N 79°18′37″W / 36.41972°N 79.31028°W / 36.41972; -79.31028
Area	619.9 acres (250.9 ha)
Built	1855 (1855)-1856, 1928-1929
Architectural style	Greek Revival
NRHP reference No.	79001688^[1]
Added to NRHP	October 24, 1979

Poteat House, also known as Forest Home, is a historic plantation house located near Yanceyville, Caswell County, North Carolina. It was built in 1855–1856, and consists of a two-story main block, three bays wide, with flanking one-story wings in the Greek Revival style. It has a center hall plan and was restored in 1928–1929 by Helen Poteat and her husband, author and playwright Laurence Stallings. It features a reconstructed double pedimented portico supported by four plain Roman Doric order columns. Also on the property is a contributing small cabin used by enslaved people.^[2] The house was the birthplace of painter Ida Isabella Poteat.^[3]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ David W. Parham and Joe Mobley (June 1979). "Poteat House" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-08-01.
^ "Poteat, Ida Isabella – NCpedia". Retrieved 16 March 2017.