Speed Farm


Speed Farm is a historic farm complex and national historic district located near Gupton, Franklin County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 14 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 5 contributing structures. The farmhouse was built about 1847 and remodelled to its current configuration in 1900. It is a two-story, three bay, I-house style frame dwelling. It has a gable roof and an almost full-width front porch. Also on the property are the contributing milk house, smokehouse, kitchen, family cemetery, and an agricultural complex with a granary, ram tower, barn, corn cribs, hog shed, tobacco grading building, five tobacco barns, and a tenant house.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.