Robert L. Doughton House

Historic house in North Carolina, United States

United States historic place


Robert L. Doughton House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

36°24′38″N 81°15′55″W / 36.41056°N 81.26528°W / 36.41056; -81.26528
Area	3.5 acres (1.4 ha)
Built	1899 (1899)
Architectural style	Queen Anne, Late Queen Anne
NRHP reference No.	79001656^[1]
Added to NRHP	August 13, 1979

Robert L. Doughton House is a historic home located at Laurel Springs, Alleghany County, North Carolina It was built in 1899, and is a two-story frame farmhouse in a vernacular Queen Anne style influenced frame cottage. It features a steeply pitched hip roof, with a two-story, one-bay gable roof projection. It was the home of Robert L. Doughton (1863-1954), one of North Carolina's foremost politicians of the first of the 20th century.^[2] In the 1990s Rufus A. Doughton's house was restored, and it is now a popular bed-and-breakfast for tourists to the region.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Michael Southern and Joe Mobley (May 1979). "Robert L. Doughton House" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-08-01.