Hauser Farmhouse | |
 Hauser Farmhouse with washhouse | |
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| Location | 308 Horne Creek Farm Rd. |
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| Nearest city | Pinnacle, North Carolina |
| Coordinates | 36°15′57″N80°29′10″W / 36.2659°N 80.4861°W /36.2659; -80.4861 |
| Area | 20 acres (8.1 ha) |
| Built | 1880 |
| Built by | John & Thomas Hauser |
| Architectural style | Log house |
| Website | https://historicsites.nc.gov/all-sites/horne-creek-farm |
| NRHP reference No. | 02000113[1] |
| Added to NRHP | March 1, 2002 |
Horne Creek Farm is a historicalfarm nearPinnacle,Surry County, North Carolina. The farm is a North Carolina State Historic Site that belongs to theNorth Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, and it is operated to depict farm life in the northwestPiedmont areac. 1900. The historic site includes the late 19th centuryHauser Farmhouse, which has been furnished to reflect the 1900-1910 era, along with other supporting structures. The farm raised animal breeds that were common in the early 20th century. The site also includes theSouthern Heritage Apple Orchard, which preserves about 800 trees of about 400heritage apple varieties. A visitor center includes exhibits, a gift shop and offices.
The State Historic Site regularly hosts special events, which focus on farm life and techniques from the early 20th century, and includesheep shearing, corn shucking,ice cream socials, heritage crafts, music and pie baking.
The farmhouse was built about 1880, and is a two-story, three-bay, single-pile log building with weatherboard sheathing and a wood-shingled gable roof. Also on the property are the contributing double-crib log barn (c. 1846), wellhouse/washhouse (c. 1880), logsmokehouse (c. 1880), logtobacco barn (c. 1910),corncrib (c. 1930), a fruit house (c. 1900) and familycemetery (c. 1853).[2] A reconstructed fruit and vegetable drying house was placed where the original once stood.
It was listed on theNational Register of Historic Places in 2002.[1]
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