Carr, Titus W., House

Set on level farmland near Walstonburg in Greene County, this two-story frame house was built within about five years after the Civil War for Titus W. Carr, a planter, merchant and county commissioner. Its form is Greek Revival, while scroll-sawn brackets, a trellised front porch and drillwork moldings add Italianate touches. Inside, a center hall opens onto four rooms on each floor, with period mantels and a handsome open-string stair. A cedar-lined drive leads to the house, and surviving outbuildings include a former kitchen, smokehouses, barns and a probable gin house. The property matters for two reasons. It reflects the shift from large slave-worked plantations to smaller farms, tenants and sharecroppers after the war, and Carr's farm grew cotton and corn with hired labor. It is also considered one of the finest late 19th-century houses surviving in the county, with little change since the early 1900s. Restoration by its current owners is under way.