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Crabtree Jones House

This Federal-style plantation house features molded weatherboards, modillion cornice, Flemish bond chimneys and six-panel doors. Nathaniel Jones, an early Wake County settler, built the dwelling. Today, the wooded site is an eighteenth-century island surrounded by late twentieth- and early twenty-first century commercial and industrial development. Private residence.

Date: ca. 1795

Images

Crabtree Jones House, 2012 Image courtesy of D. Strevel, Capital City Camera Club.
Crabtree Jones House, 2012 Side view. Image courtesy of D. Strevel, Capital City Camera Club.
Crabtree Jones House, 2012 Detail. Image courtesy of D. Strevel, Capital City Camera Club.
Crabtree Jones House, 2012 Detail. Image courtesy of D. Strevel, Capital City Camera Club.
Crabtree Jones House, 2012 Painted mantle. Image courtesy of D. Strevel, Capital City Camera Club.
Crabtree Jones House, 1934 Image courtesy of the Jones-Belvin Heirs.
Crabtree Jones House, 1954 William Jones. Image courtesy of the Jones-Belvin Heirs.
Crabtree Jones House Image courtesy of Raleigh Public Record. Creator: Photo by Fraser Sherman.
Crabtree Jones House Image courtesy of Raleigh Public Record. Creator: Photo by Karen Tam.
Crabtree Jones House Image courtesy of Raleigh Public Record. Creator: Photo by Karen Tam.
Crabtree Jones House Image courtesy of Raleigh Public Record. Creator: Photo by Karen Tam.
Crabtree Jones House Image courtesy of the State Archives of North Carolina.

Location

3017 Wake Forest Road

Metadata

RHDC, “Crabtree Jones House,” Raleigh Historic, accessed March 27, 2023, https://raleighhistoric.org/items/show/10.