Rufus Amis House and Mill

Rufus Amis House and Mill
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Nearest city	Virgilina, Virginia
Area	32.7 acres (13.2 ha)
Built	c. 1855 (1855)
Architectural style	Greek Revival, Gothic Revival
MPS	Granville County MPS
NRHP reference No.	88000416[1]
Added to NRHP	April 28, 1988

Rufus Amis House and Mill is a historic home and grist mill and national historic district located near Virgilina, Virginia in Granville County, North Carolina. The house was built about 1855, and is a 1+1⁄2-story, L-shaped Gothic Revival / Greek Revival style frame dwelling. It has a roof with six gables and delicately sawn bargeboards. Also on the property are the contributing smokehouse, icehouse (later a striphouse), privy, barn, chicken house, corn crib, mill race, former dwelling, and 3+1⁄2-story grist mill.^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.^[1]

Rufus Amis served in the North Carolina House of Representatives in 1879 and 1889 representing Granville County.^[3]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Marvin A. Brown and Patricia Esperon (August 1987). "Rufus Amis House and Mill" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved November 1, 2014.
3. North Carolina Manual. North Carolina Historical Commission. 1913.