Stovall, John W., Farm

Set on 54 acres near the town of Stovall in Granville County, North Carolina, this family tobacco farm is centered on a farmhouse of two parts, both built before the Civil War. The two-story western half was already standing as a Presbyterian glebe house when John W. and Lucy Stovall bought the farm in 1839. The Stovalls added the one-and-a-half-story eastern half shortly before the war. The woodwork mixes Federal and Greek Revival details, including a transitional parlor mantel with Greek fret blocks. Nearby are a stable, corncrib, smokehouses, a lumber house, a packhouse, four log tobacco barns and a family cemetery. John Stovall was a prosperous planter whose name was given to the nearby town after he granted the railroad a right-of-way. The farm is valued as one of the county's older intact dwellings and as a record of bright leaf tobacco farming through 1937, and it has stayed in the family since 1839.