313 W Noble Street, Louisburg, NC 27549

The Patterson-Noble-Baker house was one of the original plantation homes built, and early deeds suggest this home was one of the town's founders. The main house is a one-room deep, two-story, asymmetrical, central hall plan. The home has details of Greek-Revival and Federal Style influences. Downstairs moldings include wide baseboards, heavily molded casing with matching rosettes, and flat paneled wainscot in the entry foyer, and chairrail in three of the four main rooms. Lower fireplace mantels are highly refined, resembling those by Gamaliel Jones and Jacob Holt. They have paired, fluted, Doric columns carrying a heavy entablature with a fluted horizontal scroll and a large mantel shelf. Many of the floors are original wide board, heart-pine. The central hall, originally, was hand-painted with a border and flower motif. This home is nestled on a 1.98-acre lot with a fenced courtyard in the town's Historic District, within a block from Louisburg Junior College. The home has … read more …