Warren House and Warren's Store

Two buildings face each other at the Prospect Hill crossroads in Caswell County, North Carolina: a frame farmhouse and a brick country store. Franklin Link Warren, a tobacco and corn farmer, bought the land in 1858 and probably began building soon afterward, with the two structures erected several years apart. The two-story house is three bays wide and has a low hip roof, a bracketed cornice and two-story pedimented porches with slender latticework posts. Inside, a center hall is flanked by rooms with heavy Greek Revival trim. The store is a brick temple-form building with a pedimented gable front, a general-store room below, and clerk's quarters and a sales room upstairs. A post office, established at the crossroads in 1823, moved into the store when it was finished. The buildings are considered well-preserved examples of vernacular Greek Revival design in the northern Piedmont, and the store is one of the few surviving rural antebellum commercial buildings in the area. The complex remains in the Warren family and still serves the community.