Ayr Mount
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| Location | St. Mary's Rd., Hillsborough, North Carolina |
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| Area | 8 acres (3.2 ha) |
| Built | c. 1815 |
| Architectural style | Greek Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 71000606[1] |
| Added to NRHP | August 26, 1971 |
Ayr Mount is a Federal style plantation house located east of Hillsborough, in Orange County, North Carolina, the United States of America.
In 1799, William Kirkland (born in Ayr, Scotland) bought 500 acres (2.0 km2) east of Hillsborough. Circa 1815, he had a home built for himself, his wife, Margaret, and their children, a brick dwelling with a two-story, three-bay main block flanked by one-story, two-bay wings. A full-width front porch, added about 1894, was removed sometime after 1971 and replaced with a facsimile of the original porch.[2]
Mrs. Samuel (Emily) Kirkland, the last of four generations of Kirklands to occupy the house, lived there until 1985.
The property had gone through several owners prior to Kirkland's purchase of the property, the most well-known being William Few, Jr., whose father, William Few, Sr., had a house built on the property c. 1764.
Today, Ayr Mount is a publicly accessible historic site located on 265 acres (1.07 km2). It is owned and operated by Classical American Homes Preservation Trust.[3] The home has been furnished with Federal period antiques and decorative art, including some original Kirkland furnishings. Ayr Mount features guided house tours and the one-mile (1.6 km) hiking trail the "Poet's Walk."
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External links
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- - Ayr Mount website
- - Classical American Homes Preservation Trust
- Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. NC-220, "Ayr Mount, Saint Mary's Road, Hillsborough, Orange County, NC", 9 photos, 20 measured drawings, 6 data pages, 1 photo caption page
- Federal architecture in North Carolina
- Historic American Buildings Survey in North Carolina
- Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
- Houses in Hillsborough, North Carolina
- Historic house museums in North Carolina
- Plantation houses in North Carolina
- Museums in Orange County, North Carolina
- Houses completed in 1815
- National Register of Historic Places in Orange County, North Carolina
- Richard Jenrette
- Brick buildings and structures in North Carolina
- Southern United States museum stubs
- North Carolina building and structure stubs
- Research Triangle region, North Carolina Registered Historic Place stubs