Filed Under African American
John T. and Mary Turner House
![John T. and Mary Turner House, 1980s](https://raleighhistoric.org/files/fullsize/6ef7dd1df62c274427153510ded01786.jpg)
The Turner House is an intact Neoclassical I-house in the African American community of Oberlin. The house was expanded by John T. Turner, Oberlin's major landowner, around 1900 from a three-room one-story house. While the I-house type is more often seen on agricultural landscapes, Oberlin was more rural in the late nineteenth century than it appears today. Turner, in fact, is listed as a farmer in Oberlin in the 1880 census. Private residence.
Date: ca. 1900
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![John T. and Mary Turner House, 1980s](https://raleighhistoric.org/files/fullsize/6ef7dd1df62c274427153510ded01786.jpg)
![John T. and Mary Turner House, 2007](https://raleighhistoric.org/files/fullsize/bff03ffb32bd88b5ed64f304093e5779.jpg)
![John T. and Mary Turner House, 2007](https://raleighhistoric.org/files/fullsize/eb1b213599101a737be2066ddc9db3b3.jpg)
![John T. and Mary Turner House, 2013](https://raleighhistoric.org/files/fullsize/237adb0cef5f63eb68608770cb9eb70c.jpg)