Gen. Thomas Boykin House

Historic house in North Carolina, United States

United States historic place


Gen. Thomas Boykin House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Gen. Thomas Boykin House, September 2013
34°57′43″N 78°22′26″W / 34.96194°N 78.37389°W / 34.96194; -78.37389
Area	249 acres (101 ha)
Built	c. 1810 (1810)
Architectural style	Federal, Vernacular Federal
MPS	Sampson County MRA
NRHP reference No.	86000551^[1]
Added to NRHP	March 17, 1986

Gen. Thomas Boykin House is a historic home located near Clinton, Sampson County, North Carolina. It was built about 1810, and is a large two-story, hall-and-parlor plan, vernacular Federal style frame dwelling. It has a side gable roof, is sheathed in weatherboard, and has a later one-story, two-roam wing. It was the residence of General Thomas Boykin (1785-1859), Captain in War of 1812, later a General in the Militia and a three term member of the North Carolina General Assembly.^[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Thomas Butchko and Jim Sumner (June 1985). "Gen. Thomas Boykin House" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-02-01.