Machpelah (Townsville, North Carolina)
Machpelah | |
| Location | 12079 NC 39, approx. 0.5 mi (1 km). S of Townsville, near Townsville, North Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 36°29′11″N 78°25′58″W / 36.48639°N 78.43278°W |
| Area | 323 acres (131 ha) |
| Built | c. 1850, c. 1880 |
| Built by | Willie Newkirk |
| Architectural style | Greek Revival, Queen Anne, et al. |
| NRHP reference No. | 07000215 |
| Added to NRHP | March 27, 2007 |
Machpelah, also known as Macpelah, McPelah, and the Robert B. Taylor Farm, is a historic home and farm located near Townsville, Vance County, North Carolina. The Edward O. Taylor House was built about 1880, and is a two-story, T-shaped, vernacular frame dwelling with Greek Revival, Queen Anne, and Colonial Revival details. Also on the property are the contributing single-story, timber-frame Greek Revival plantation office building (c. 1850, c. 1900); oil house (c. 1900); well (c. 1900, c. 1950); salting house and dovecote; privy (c. 1900); henhouse (c. 1900); flower pit (c. 1920); 1+1⁄2-story modest Colonial Revival style guesthouse (1954); five tenant houses (c. 1890, c. 1910, c. 1920); feed house (c. 1900); two stables (c. 1900, c. 1950); corn crib (c. 1900); two cemeteries; and the farm landscape.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.