Kerr Scott Farm
Kerr Scott Farm is located in North Carolina
Kerr Scott Farm
Kerr Scott Farm is located in the United States
Kerr Scott Farm
Nearest cityN and S side of SR 2123, near Haw River, North Carolina
Coordinates36°03′33″N 79°21′00″W / 36.05917°N 79.35000°W / 36.05917; -79.35000
Area243 acres (98 ha)
Built1919 (1919)
NRHP reference No.87001850[1]
Added to NRHPOctober 31, 1987

Kerr Scott Farm, also known as Melville, is a historic home and farm located near Haw River, Alamance County, North Carolina. The vernacular farmhouse was built in 1919, and consists of a 1 1/2-story, frame, center hall plan, hip-roofed main block, with a one-story frame gable-roofed ell built about 1860. The property includes a variety of contributing outbuildings including a farm office (c. 1920s), milk house (c. 1920s), woodshed (c. 1930s), dairy barns (1910, 1929 and 1941), equipment building / machine shop (1941), cow shed (c. 1940s), gas / oil house (c. 1940s), corn crib (1910), silos, and cow sheds. It was the home of North Carolina governor and United States Senator, W. Kerr Scott (1896-1958) and the birthplace of W. Kerr Scott's son, also a former North Carolina governor, Robert W. Scott.[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Jerry Cross; Pat Dickinson; Cynthia Craig (1986). "Kerr Scott Farm" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-08-01.


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