Sep 15, 2005
National Register of Historic Places - William Thompson House
Statement of Significance: The Thompson House, a double-pile, hipped-roof plantation house with front and rear one-story porches, is one of the most intact examples of the Greek Revival style in Wake County. Built about 1853 on Falls of the Neuse Road west of the town of Wake Forest, the house was moved in 2004 a short distance to the west, on property originally belonging to the plantation, in order to preserve it. Its new address is 2528 Old North Carolina Highway 98. A ca. 1853 frame barn associated with the house was also moved to the new site. William Thompson is believed to have built this house about the time of his marriage to Mary A. Thompson in 1853. William's father, George Warren Thompson, operated the Forest Hills Academy in the 1830s. William's mother, Frances, was a daughter of William Crenshaw, one of the founders of the academy in the early nineteenth century. William Thompson, a captain in the Confederate Army, was killed in a battle in Virginia in 1862. The plantation remained in the Thompson family until the 1920s. In 2004, the house was moved in order to save it from demolition. The Thompson House meets National Register Criterion C for its architectural significance as one of the most intact Greek Revival-style houses in Wake County, as discussed in "Historic and Architectural Resources of Wake County (ca. 1770-1941), under Context 1: British and Africans Shape an Agrarian Society (Colonial Period to 1860), and under Property Type 3A: Houses built from the Colonial Period to the Civil War era." Its period of significance is ca. 1853. Although moved, the house meets Criterion Consideration B as a moved building of outstanding architectural significance that has a compatible site and that retains its physical integrity.
National Register of Historic Places - William Thompson House
Statement of Significance: The Thompson House, a double-pile, hipped-roof plantation house with front and rear one-story porches, is one of the most intact examples of the Greek Revival style in Wake County. Built about 1853 on Falls of the Neuse Road west of the town of Wake Forest, the house was moved in 2004 a short distance to the west, on property originally belonging to the plantation, in order to preserve it. Its new address is 2528 Old North Carolina Highway 98. A ca. 1853 frame barn associated with the house was also moved to the new site. William Thompson is believed to have built this house about the time of his marriage to Mary A. Thompson in 1853. William's father, George Warren Thompson, operated the Forest Hills Academy in the 1830s. William's mother, Frances, was a daughter of William Crenshaw, one of the founders of the academy in the early nineteenth century. William Thompson, a captain in the Confederate Army, was killed in a battle in Virginia in 1862. The plantation remained in the Thompson family until the 1920s. In 2004, the house was moved in order to save it from demolition. The Thompson House meets National Register Criterion C for its architectural significance as one of the most intact Greek Revival-style houses in Wake County, as discussed in "Historic and Architectural Resources of Wake County (ca. 1770-1941), under Context 1: British and Africans Shape an Agrarian Society (Colonial Period to 1860), and under Property Type 3A: Houses built from the Colonial Period to the Civil War era." Its period of significance is ca. 1853. Although moved, the house meets Criterion Consideration B as a moved building of outstanding architectural significance that has a compatible site and that retains its physical integrity.
Sep 15, 2005
Posted Date
Sep 05, 2023
Historical Record Date
Sep 15, 2005
Source Name
National Register of Historic Places
