Taylor, Col. Richard P., House

At the end of an unpaved lane, in a grove of oaks near Huntsboro, stands a two-story brick-foundation house with a one-story east wing, built in the 1830s for Col. Richard P. Taylor on land his father had bought in 1819. Its front is crowned by a flush-sheathed pediment with an ornate lunette window, and its windows carry entablatures. Inside, a hallway runs across the front, a plan like a side-hall layout turned 90 degrees and found nowhere else in the county. Federal and early Greek Revival mantels, doors and stairs keep their original marbleizing and wood-graining. Three pre-Civil War outbuildings survive: a smokehouse, a possible pigeon house, and a possible air-cure tobacco barn. Early twentieth century log tobacco barns and a corn crib reflect the later bright leaf era. The property was listed for its architecture and its link to agriculture, with a period of significance running from the 1830s to 1937. The Parham family has owned it since 1896.