Griffith-Sowers House


Griffith-Sowers House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	5050 Statesville Boulevard, near Salisbury, North Carolina
Coordinates	35°42′50″N 80°34′07″W / 35.71389°N 80.56861°W / 35.71389; -80.56861Coordinates: 35°42′50″N 80°34′07″W / 35.71389°N 80.56861°W / 35.71389; -80.56861
Area	30 acres (12 ha)
Built	1930 (1930)
Architect	Bloxam, Percy
Architectural style	Colonial Revival
NRHP Reference #	09000703^[1]
Added to NRHP	September 9, 2009

Griffith-Sowers House is a historic home located near Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina. It was built between about 1930 and 1932, and is a large two-story, Colonial Revival style frame country house. It consists of a five-bay wide center block, covered by a side-gable slate roof, linked by shallow one-bay wide hyphens to flanking, recessed, perpendicular gable-front two-story wings. Other contributing resources are the poultry house (c. 1934-1940), barn (c. 1934-c. 1960), a small storage building (c. 1940-1950) and the landscaped grounds.^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.^[1]

References

1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ Davyd Foard Hood (August 2008). "Griffith-Sowers House" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-02-01.

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