Francis Parker House

	Francis Parker House
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Nearest city	Murfreesboro, North Carolina
Coordinates	36°26′18″N 77°8′55″W / 36.43833°N 77.14861°WCoordinates: 36°26′18″N 77°8′55″W / 36.43833°N 77.14861°W
Area	1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built	c. 1785
Architectural style	Georgian
NRHP reference No.	83001900
Added to NRHP	October 21, 1983

Francis Parker House, also known as Parker's Big Run or High House, is a historic home located near Murfreesboro, Northampton County, North Carolina. It was built about 1785, and is a 1 1/2-story, hall and parlor plan, Georgian style frame dwelling with a one-story rear wing. It has a gambrel roof, is sheathed in weatherboard, sits on a raised brick basement, and rebuilt massive paved double-shoulder exterior end chimneys. The house was moves to its present location in 1976. The contributing Vaughan house and pyramidal-roof frame dairy (formerly located in Hertford County near the Parker house), were also moved to the site.^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.^[1]

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^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ John B. Parker (July 1982). "Francis Parker House" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-03-01.

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[nrhpinv-2] John B. Parker (July 1982). "Francis Parker House" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-03-01.

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