Henry Willis House

Historic house in North Carolina, United States
United States historic place
Henry Willis House
35°56′17″N 82°07′47″W / 35.93806°N 82.12972°W / 35.93806; -82.12972
Area18 acres (7.3 ha)
Builtc. 1880 (1880), c. 1890
Architectural styleDouble-pen log house
NRHP reference No.88001051[1]
Added to NRHPJuly 14, 1988

Henry Willis House, also known as Ehle House, is a historic home located near Penland, Mitchell County, North Carolina. It was built about 1880, and enlarged about 1890. It is a double-pen log house, with a weatherboarded log ell added after the turn of the 20th century. It was enlarged again about 1930 and in the 1980s. Also on the property is a contributing privy. It is one of the three traditional log homesteads in Mitchell County.[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Carolyn A. Humphries (September 1987). "Henry Willis House" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-02-01.
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