Merritt-Winstead House is a historic home located near Roxboro,

Person County, North Carolina Person County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. The population was 39,097 as of the 2020 census. The county seat is Roxboro. Person County is included in the Durham- Chapel Hill, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area, wh ...

. It was built in 1915, as a -story, transitional Queen Anne /

Colonial Revival The Colonial Revival architectural style seeks to revive elements of American colonial architecture. The beginnings of the Colonial Revival style are often attributed to the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, which reawakened Americans to the arch ...

style frame dwelling. It was enlarged in 1934 to a two-story, three-bay, Colonial Revival dwelling veneered in brick with a one-story, wrap-around

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-style front porch. A one-story vestibule was added to the front facade about 1950. Also on the property are a contributing

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(c. 1950), garage (c. 1934), tennis court (c. 1925), swimming pool complex (c. 1952), well house (c. 1950), two grape arbors (c. 1930–1935), Bill Joe's Play Doctor's Office (c. 1928), retaining walls (c. 1952), storage building (c. 1934), barbeque grill (c. 1952), and rock walls and a

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garden (c. 1925). The house was added to the

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in 2005.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Queen Anne architecture in North Carolina Colonial Revival architecture in North Carolina Houses completed in 1934 Houses in Person County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Person County, North Carolina 1934 establishments in North Carolina {{PersonCountyNC-NRHP-stub