Sloop Point

Sloop Point
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	Intersection of Family Lane and SR 1561 (Sloop Point Road), near Vista, North Carolina
Coordinates	34°24′58″N 77°35′55″W
Area	4 acres (1.6 ha)
Built	c. 1729
Built by	Ashe, John Baptista
NRHP reference No.	72000985[1]
Added to NRHP	January 20, 1972

Sloop Point Plantation is a historic house located at Sloop Point, Pender County, North Carolina. It was built in 1729 according to dendrochronological dating and is possibly the oldest surviving framed building in the state of North Carolina. The house was built as a home for John Baptista Ashe and his wife Elizabeth Swann Ashe.^[2][3][4][5]

The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

See also

• List of the oldest buildings in North Carolina

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Samuel Swann Connection to Sloop Point Plantation
3. Clarendon Courier, Fall 1995, Volume 7, No. 3
4. Tetterton, Beverly (2006). "Sloop Point Plantation". NCPedia.
5. John B. Wells, III (July 1971). "Sloop Point" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-02-01.

External links

• Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. NC-219, "Sloop Point Plantation, U.S. Route 17, Holly Ridge Vicinity, Topsail Beach, Pender County, NC", 12 measured drawings