The Grove (Tarboro, North Carolina)

The Grove
Location 130 Bridgers St., Tarboro, North Carolina
Coordinates 35°54′10″N 77°32′14″W / 35.90278°N 77.53722°WCoordinates: 35°54′10″N 77°32′14″W / 35.90278°N 77.53722°W
Area 9.9 acres (4.0 ha)
Built 1808
Architectural style Federal
Governing body Local
NRHP Reference # 71000583[1]
Added to NRHP February 18, 1971

The Grove, also known as Blount-Bridgers House, is a historic home located at Tarboro, Edgecombe County, North Carolina. It was built about 1808, and is a two-story, five bay, Federal style frame dwelling. It has a gable roof and pairs of double-shouldered brick end chimneys. It was the home of Thomas Blount (1759 – 1812), an American Revolutionary War veteran and statesman.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.[1] It is located in the Tarboro Historic District.

Edgecombe Arts is located in the Blount-Bridgers House, which features a permanent collection of works by Tarboro-born artist Hobson Pittman (1899-1972), including oil paintings, pastels, drawings, prints and watercolors.[3] Blount-Bridgers House also exhibits locally-made period furniture and 19th-century paintings of such area painters as Thomas Sully, Thomas Landseer and William Garle Brown. The area also changing exhibits of contemporary artists.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2010-07-09.
  2. ↑ John G. Zehmer and John B. Wells, III (October 1970). "The Grove" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-11-01.
  3. ↑ "Blount-Bridgers House". Edgecombe Arts. Retrieved 4 December 2014.

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