Chambers-Morgan Farm
Why it's listed
Located on the east side of State Route 1228 in White Store township, southwest Anson County, North Carolina, the Chambers-Morgan Farm is the surviving part of a plantation begun by Wilson Chambers in 1829. The two-story, weatherboarded house has a center-hall plan, a two-tier front porch with boxed columns, nine-over-nine sash windows and two-panel Greek Revival doors. The house is regarded as an outstanding and remarkably intact example of the style in the county. Its builder's household held twenty-three enslaved people in 1850 and thirty-eight in 1860, and the plantation was reported at 1,700 acres in those census years. After the Civil War the land was worked by tenants. In 1910 F. H. Morgan acquired the house and 452 acres, and he built several frame outbuildings, including a barn, corn cribs and a blacksmith shop. The farm's fields and timber still follow the pattern shown on a crop map of about 1940, and its outbuildings document the county's agricultural life across the twentieth century.
Significance in brief: The nomination argues the house is an outstanding and remarkably intact example of Greek Revival architecture in Anson County, with original porch, doors, sash windows and interior finishes. It also argues the farm's outbuildings and landscape document the county's agricultural history, including the transition from plantation slavery to tenant farming.
Machine-generated summary. This summary was generated by a language model from the official nomination document and has not been reviewed line by line by an editor. It may contain errors. Check the source document before relying on any detail. Source: nomination document (PDF) · National Archives catalog entry. NRHP reference 96001526, listed December 27, 1996. Summary generated October 2026 (model claude-haiku-5-5, prompt v1.1-2026-10-29, confidence medium).
Key facts
| Address | W side of NC 1228, .1 mi. N of NC 1225, White Store |
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| County | Anson County |
| Listed | December 27, 1996 |
| Reference number | 96001526 |
| Resource type | District |
| Period of significance | 1829-1946 |
| Architectural style | Greek Revival |
| Criteria |
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| Areas of significance | Architecture, Agriculture |
| Level of significance | Local |
| Status (as stated in the nomination) | The house remained vacant until 1996, when it was purchased by the present owners, who have undertaken a careful restoration of the house and outbuildings. |
| Acreage | 273 |
| Coordinates | 34.87350, -80.30096 (NPS GIS) |
What listing means for this property
This is a historic district. Buildings within its boundary are either contributing (they add to the district's significance) or non-contributing. Owners of contributing income-producing buildings can claim the 20% federal rehabilitation tax credit; homeowners should look at state credits. National Register districts impose no design review by themselves; a local historic district ordinance, if one exists, does (the difference explained).
General information, not legal or tax advice. Rules change; confirm with your State Historic Preservation Office or a qualified adviser.
Sources and further reading
- National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places database (snapshot May 2026), reference 96001526.
- Nomination form (PDF, National Archives) — catalog entry
- Wikipedia article (used for cross-checking only; text not reproduced here)
- Wikidata Q17515521
- This listing as JSON
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