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Model Farm
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	2058 Brentwood St., High Point, North Carolina
Coordinates	35°56′17″N 79°58′42″W / 35.93806°N 79.97833°W / 35.93806; -79.97833
Area	1.99 acres (0.81 ha)
Built	1867 (1867)
Architectural style	L-Plan House
NRHP reference No.	11000208
Added to NRHP	April 20, 2011

Model Farm, also known as Swarthmore Farm, is a historic home located at High Point, Guilford County, North Carolina. It was built about 1867, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, triple-A roofed, side-gabled, L-plan, frame building with 12 rooms. It is sheathed in weatherboard and sits on a brick foundation. The front facade has a full width, one-story hip-roofed porch. The house is associated with an important program of the Quakers to improve agricultural endeavors in the South in the decades after the American Civil War.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

References

1. ^ "National Register of Historic Places Listings". Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 4/18/11 through 4/22/11. National Park Service. 2011-04-29.
2. Gisele Taylor Wells (September 2010). "Model Farm" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-11-01.

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