Speed Farm is a historic farm complex and national historic district located near Gupton, Franklin County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 14 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 5 contributing structures. The farmhouse was built about 1847 and remodelled to its current configuration in 1900. It is a two-story, three bay, I-house style frame dwelling. It has a gable roof and an almost full-width front porch. Also on the property are the contributing milk house (c. 1847), smokehouse (c. 1847), kitchen (c. 1847), family cemetery, and an agricultural complex with a granary, ram tower (c. 1935), barn (c. 1840, 1850), corn cribs, hog shed, tobacco grading building (c. 1930), five tobacco barns (c. 1940), and a tenant house (c. 1935).

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

Speed Farm

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Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina

Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina

Houses completed in 1847

Buildings and structures in Franklin County, North Carolina

National Register of Historic Places in Franklin County, North Carolina

Houses in Franklin County, North Carolina

1847 establishments in North Carolina

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