Ayr Mount

Historic house in North Carolina, United States

This article is about the plantation house. For other uses, see Mount Ayr (disambiguation).

United States historic place

Ayr Mount

U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Ayr Mount in 2021

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Location| St. Mary's Rd., Hillsborough, North Carolina
Coordinates| 36°4′37″N 79°5′30″W﻿ / ﻿36.07694°N 79.09167°W﻿ / 36.07694; -79.09167
Area| 8 acres (3.2 ha)
Built| c. 1815 (1815)
Architectural style| Greek Revival
NRHP reference No.| 71000606[1]
Added to NRHP| August 26, 1971

Ayr Mount is a Federal style plantation house located east of Hillsborough, in Orange County, North Carolina, the United States of America.

In 1799, William Kirkland (born in Ayr, Scotland) bought 500 acres (2.0 km2) east of Hillsborough. Circa 1815, he had a home built for himself, his wife, Margaret, and their children, a brick dwelling with a two-story, three-bay main block flanked by one-story, two-bay wings. A full-width front porch, added about 1894, was removed sometime after 1971 and replaced with a facsimile of the original porch.[2]

Mrs. Samuel (Emily) Kirkland, the last of four generations of Kirklands to occupy the house, lived there until 1985.

The property had gone through several owners prior to Kirkland's purchase of the property, the most well-known being William Few, Jr., whose father, William Few, Sr., had a house built on the property c. 1764.

Today, Ayr Mount is a publicly accessible historic site located on 265 acres (1.07 km2). It is owned and operated by Classical American Homes Preservation Trust.[3] The home has been furnished with Federal period antiques and decorative art, including some original Kirkland furnishings. Ayr Mount features guided house tours and the one-mile (1.6 km) hiking trail the "Poet's Walk."

Ayr Mount in History and Today

Ayr Mount in 1965

Ayr Mount in 2022 (Front)

Ayr Mount in 2022 (Back)

## References

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1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. ^ John B. Wells, III (March 1971). "Ayr Mount" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved February 1, 2015.
3. ^ "Ayr Mount". Classical American Homes Preservation Trust. Retrieved October 27, 2021.

## External links

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Media related to Ayr Mount at Wikimedia Commons

* \- Ayr Mount website
* \- Classical American Homes Preservation Trust
* Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. NC-220, "Ayr Mount, Saint Mary's Road, Hillsborough, Orange County, NC", 9 photos, 20 measured drawings, 6 data pages, 1 photo caption page

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