Ashburn Hall
United States historic place
Ashburn Hall, also known as the Capehart House, is a historic plantation house located near Kittrell, Vance County, North Carolina. It was built in the 1840s or early 1850s, and is a two‑story, three‑bay, T‑shaped frame dwelling in a restrained Greek Revival style. It features a broad, one‑story pedimented entrance portico, with four spaced, paired fluted Tuscan order columns.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q19986516. VIAF identifies the subject as 130534152. The Library of Congress control number is no2003103419. Authority coordinates are 36.205, -78.502. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1977.
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