Buxton Place

Buxton Place is a 795-acre farm in southern Warren County, North Carolina, near the crossroads community of Inez. Its centerpiece is a two-story, double-pile frame house on a raised brick basement, begun in 1857 by builder John A. Waddell for the family of planter John Buxton Williams. The house combines Greek Revival and Italianate features, including bracketed eaves, ogee-arched window panes, and grained and marbleized interior woodwork. It is regarded as a fine example of the work of Jacob W. Holt and his associates, a group of builders active in Warren County between about 1845 and 1870. The surrounding home lot holds nineteenth and twentieth century farm outbuildings, including a mid-nineteenth century smokehouse. The property also documents the shift from a slave-based tobacco economy to tenant farming, cotton, and later cattle raising. It remains a working farm that retains much of its original appearance.