Tunstall, Eldon B., Farm

Near Bullock in Granville County, this 40-acre farm centers on a white, weatherboarded I-house built in 1907 for Eldon B. and Alice Tunstall. The two-story, center-hall house has brick end chimneys, a front porch, a rear ell and plain finishes, including a cedar newel post and tobacco stick stair railings. Behind it, two rows of outbuildings show how a bright leaf tobacco farm operated: three V-notched log tobacco barns, a long frame packhouse, a striphouse with an attached ordering house, a corn crib, a smokehouse, a dairy, a chicken house, a shop and a garage. A frame store built around 1921 stands in front, closed after highway routes shifted. Of 16 outbuildings, only two small well houses are noncontributing. The farm is notable because the house is nearly unaltered and the set of early twentieth-century farm buildings is unusually complete. Tobacco growing continued into the 1950s, but the period of significance ends in 1937.