The turn-of-the-century Ellis Farm is one of the most intact farmsteads remaining in Durham County. The three-room farmhouse, tenant house, feedhouse, and tobacco barn were purchased by the Ellis family in 1922. The house was enlarged by addition a room to the left end of the main side-gable. Additional outbuildings were erected to support the 100-acre farm that raised corn, wheat, barley, hay, oats, and tobacco. The buildings continued to be occupied and the land farmed until 1988.The 15-acre parcel currently contains the Ellis farmhouse (for which renovations are planned), a tenant house, two wood sheds, two smokehouses, a cannery, garage, feedhouse, packhouse, order/stripping house, and four tobacco barns.
The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in December 2011. For a downloadable version of the nomination go to: http://www.hpo.ncdcr.gov/nr/DH3310.pdf
