• Source: Machpelah (Townsville, North Carolina)

Machpelah, also known as Macpelah, McPelah, and the Robert B. Taylor Farm, is a historic home and farm located near Townsville, Vance County, North Carolina. The Edward O. Taylor House was built about 1880, and is a two-story, T-shaped, vernacular frame dwelling with Greek Revival, Queen Anne, and Colonial Revival details. Also on the property are the contributing single-story, timber-frame Greek Revival plantation office building (c. 1850, c. 1900); oil house (c. 1900); well (c. 1900, c. 1950); salting house and dovecote; privy (c. 1900); henhouse (c. 1900); flower pit (c. 1920); 1+1⁄2-story modest Colonial Revival style guesthouse (1954); five tenant houses (c. 1890, c. 1910, c. 1920); feed house (c. 1900); two stables (c. 1900, c. 1950); corn crib (c. 1900); two cemeteries; and the farm landscape.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.




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• Machpelah (Townsville, North Carolina)
• Townsville, North Carolina
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Vance County, North Carolina