Traveler’s Rest: 1938
click on the link… I visit Shorpy’s site almost daily…
http://www.shorpy.com/node/22335?size=_original#caption
Of course this little bungalow was built considerably before 1938… if you disagree… why? What year do you think?
1938. “Traveller’s Rest, Louisburg vicinity, Franklin County, North Carolina. Farm of A.T. Wilson; a roadside guest house.” 8×10 inch acetate negative by Frances Benjamin Johnston
Andersons of Colonial N. Carolina 
The construction says 19th/very early 20th century. My 1900 Oregon farmhouse had ship-lap siding (now under vinyl), stone foundation, single-pane windows, and cedar shingles. The beautiful photograph may have been taken in 1938 but the structure was built much earlier. When did A. T. Wilson acquire Traveler’s Rest?
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kanderson819
July 28, 2017 at 5:45 pm
I have no history on the Franklin County Wilsons… but many of my genealogical exploits take place in that area. I get fascinated by these old photos…
The front step “almost” looks like an old millstone. Also note some sort of old “flywheel” off the corner…
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anderson1951
July 29, 2017 at 3:26 pm
Hey Marc…the picture was taken by Johnston in 1938. It is not the date it was built.
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Traci Thompson
July 31, 2017 at 8:42 am
The pic was published in this book: The early architecture of North Carolina; a pictorial survey by Frances Benjamin Johnston, with an architectural history by Thomas Tileston Waterman; foreword by Leicester B. Holland, F.A.I.A. https://www.loc.gov/item/42002517/
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Traci Thompson
July 31, 2017 at 8:48 am
Ya wanna know… just ask a Librarian… smiling.
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anderson1951
July 31, 2017 at 3:41 pm
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Sharon Heath
January 7, 2018 at 6:17 pm