Henry Willis House
Henry Willis House | |
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| Location | SR 1164, near Penland, North Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 35°56′17″N 82°07′47″W / 35.93806°N 82.12972°W |
| Area | 18 acres (7.3 ha) |
| Built | c. 1880, c. 1890 |
| Architectural style | Double-pen log house |
| NRHP reference No. | 88001051[1] |
| Added to NRHP | July 14, 1988 |
Henry Willis House, also known as Ehle House, is a historic home located near Penland, Mitchell County, North Carolina. It was built about 1880, and enlarged about 1890. It is a double-pen log house, with a weatherboarded log ell added after the turn of the 20th century. It was enlarged again about 1930 and in the 1980s. Also on the property is a contributing privy. It is one of the three traditional log homesteads in Mitchell County.[2]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Carolyn A. Humphries (September 1987). "Henry Willis House" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-02-01.
Categories:
- Log houses in the United States
- Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
- Houses completed in 1890
- Houses in Mitchell County, North Carolina
- National Register of Historic Places in Mitchell County, North Carolina
- Log buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
- Western North Carolina Registered Historic Place stubs