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Machpelah
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	12079 NC 39, approx. 0.5 mi (1 km). S of Townsville, near Townsville, North Carolina
Coordinates	36°29′11″N 78°25′58″W / 36.48639°N 78.43278°W / 36.48639; -78.43278
Area	323 acres (131 ha)
Built	c. 1850 (1850), c. 1880
Built by	Willie Newkirk
Architectural style	Greek Revival, Queen Anne, et al.
NRHP reference No.	07000215
Added to NRHP	March 27, 2007

Machpelah, also known as Macpelah, McPelah, and the Robert B. Taylor Farm, is a historic home and farm located near Townsville, Vance County, North Carolina. The Edward O. Taylor House was built about 1880, and is a two-story, T-shaped, vernacular frame dwelling with Greek Revival, Queen Anne, and Colonial Revival details. Also on the property are the contributing single-story, timber-frame Greek Revival plantation office building (c. 1850, c. 1900); oil house (c. 1900); well (c. 1900, c. 1950); salting house and dovecote; privy (c. 1900); henhouse (c. 1900); flower pit (c. 1920); 1+1⁄2-story modest Colonial Revival style guesthouse (1954); five tenant houses (c. 1890, c. 1910, c. 1920); feed house (c. 1900); two stables (c. 1900, c. 1950); corn crib (c. 1900); two cemeteries; and the farm landscape.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

References

1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Cynthia de Miranda and Alan Feduccia (August 2006). "Machpelah" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-08-01.

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