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Summer Villa

Summer Villa and the McKay-Salmon House is a historic plantation complex and national historic district located near Lillington, Harnett County, North Carolina. It encompasses seven contributing buildings on a rural farm complex. Summer Villa was built about 1849, and is a two-story, five bay, Greek Revival style dwelling updated in the early 20th century Classical Revival style. It features features a central, two-story pedimented portico supported by monumental Doric order columns with a one-story wraparound porch. The outbuildings associated with Summer Villa include the "Playhouse", carriage house (c. 1850), corn crib and three outbuildings. The McKay-Salmon House built in the last quarter of the 19th century and is a one-story decorated frame cottage.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.[1]

Summer Villa is the place where family and tradition meet to remember the past, preserve the present and prepare for the future.

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National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2010-07-09. [1]http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html

Allison Harris Black and Michael Hill (December 1984). [2]http://www.hpo.ncdcr.gov/nr/HT0017.pdf

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