The Haley House

In 1786, John and Phebe Haley built this home on the Petersburg, Virginia, to Salisbury, North Carolina, Road, a major trade route, and at that time they owned 368 acres of land around the site. John Haley was a blacksmith by trade and also served as sheriff, tax collector, and road commissioner. The story-and-a-half house was built on the Quaker Plan, with 3 rooms and 3 interior chimneys, an uncommon plan in the Piedmont South. Its handmade bricks were laid in a Flemish bond pattern in which headers, the ends of bricks, alternate with stretchers, the sides of bricks. The house also has an unusual arrangement and number of window panes and a steeply pitched roof, a characteristic of Medieval Plans. Restoration began in 1966 with funds from the City of High Point, the High Point Historical Society, and the Junior League, and the house is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

High Point, North Carolina · United States