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Speed Farm
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
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Location	W side NC 1436 between NC 1432 and NC 1434, near Gupton, North Carolina
Coordinates	36°11′17″N 78°11′26″W / 36.18806°N 78.19056°W / 36.18806; -78.19056
Area	596 acres (241 ha)
Built	c. 1847 (1847)
Architectural style	I-house
NRHP reference No.	91001907
Added to NRHP	December 27, 1991

Speed Farm is a historic farm complex and national historic district located near Gupton, Franklin County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 14 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 5 contributing structures. The farmhouse was built about 1847 and remodelled to its current configuration in 1900. It is a two-story, three-bay, I-house style frame dwelling. It has a gable roof and an almost full-width front porch. Also on the property are the contributing milk house (c. 1847), smokehouse (c. 1847), kitchen (c. 1847), family cemetery, and an agricultural complex with a granary, ram tower (c. 1935), barn (c. 1840, 1850), corn cribs, hog shed, tobacco grading building (c. 1930), five tobacco barns (c. 1940), and a tenant house (c. 1935).

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

References

1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Claudia Brown and Michael Hill (October 1991). "Speed Farm" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved November 1, 2014.

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