Kerr Scott Farm

Kerr Scott Farm, also known as Melville, is a historic home and farm located near Haw River, Alamance County, North Carolina. The vernacular farmhouse was built in 1919, and consists of a 1 1/2-story, frame, center hall plan, hip-roofed main block, with a one-story frame gable-roofed ell built about 1860. The property includes a variety of contributing outbuildings including a farm office (c. 1920s), milk house (c. 1920s), woodshed (c. 1930s), dairy barns (1910, 1929 and 1941), equipment building / machine shop (1941), cow shed (c. 1940s), gas / oil house (c. 1940s), corn crib (1910), silos, and cow sheds. It was the home of North Carolina governor and United States Senator, W. Kerr Scott (1896-1958) and the birthplace of W. Kerr Scott's son, also a former North Carolina governor, Robert W. Scott.^[2]

Kerr Scott Farm
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Nearest city	N and S side of SR 2123, near Haw River, North Carolina
Coordinates	36°03′33″N 79°21′00″W
Area	243 acres (98 ha)
Built	1919 (1919)
NRHP reference No.	87001850[1]
Added to NRHP	October 31, 1987

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.^[1]