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Crabtree Jones House
Photo by D. Strevel, Capital City Camera Club
Street Address:
3017 Wake Forest Road
Date:
ca. 1795 This Federal-style plantation house features molded weatherboards, modillion cornice, Flemish bond chimneys and six-panel doors. Nathaniel Jones, an early Wake County settler, built the dwelling. Today, the wooded site is an eighteenth-century island surrounded by late twentieth- and early twenty-first century commercial and industrial development. Private residence.
*National Register of Historic Places
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