Knox Farmhouse designated historic landmark
Revealed 12:05 a.m. Saturday, June 24, 2023
- The home that Ben Knox lives in is listed on the Nationwide Registry of Historic Locations and was as soon as his grandmother’s house. Ben Stansell/Salisbury Put up
SALISBURY—The Rowan County Board of Commissioners voted Monday night time to make the Knox Farmhouse situated on Knox Farm Highway close to Cleveland a historic landmark.
The Rowan County Historic Landmarks Fee beneficial the constructing be made a landmark due to its distinctive architectural type in rural Rowan County.
The HLC report known as the farmhouse one of many “few remaining examples of a wooden framed farmhouse from the Antebellum interval in western Rowan County” and “a effectively preserved instance of vernacular Greek Revival type in a rural setting.” The home was constructed between 1854 and 1856 in accordance with the Knox household.
The Antebellum interval was the time between the ending of the Battle of 1812 and the beginning of the Civil Battle in 1861. A part of the explanation few wooden framed farmhouses from the time stay is solely rot. The Knox Farmhouse itself needed to exchange many window and door sills after they had been broken by termites and decay.
The Greek Revival structure type was well-liked throughout this time interval. The home exhibits the architectural type by way of its use of columns on the entrance porch and the type of woodwork on inside decorations such because the mantles, baseboards, doorways and home windows.
The commissioners voted unanimously to make the farmhouse and the encircling 0.4 acres a historic landmark.
The Knox Farmhouse is situated within the Knox Farm Historic District acknowledged by the federal authorities’s Nationwide Register of Historic Locations in 1983. The farm reached bicentennial standing in 2020, a historic honor for the farm reaching 200 years of continued existence.
In keeping with paperwork submitted by John Benjamin Knox for the Historic Landmark software, the farm has hosted 9 generations of the Knox household constantly for 168 years.
“The Knoxes came to visit from Coleraine, Eire, in 1740, there’s a report of that. They left Coalraine, Eire, in 1740 and got here to Pennsylvania. They got here down by way of the Pennsylvania Wagon Path and squatted in Rowan County earlier than it was Rowan County,” stated Knox.
The historic design solely consists of the outside of the house and the encircling space. The inside of the house just isn’t included as a part of the historic landmark.
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