Allen-Mangum House is a historic plantation house and national historic district located near Grissom, Granville County, North Carolina.

Built as the main residence and headquarters of an agricultural forced labor camp, the house includes a rear block was built about 1848 and a front block added about 1880. It is a two-story frame dwelling with Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, and Italianate style design elements. It has an I-house form and a two-story rear ell. It features a front porch with an exceptionally intricate, cutout screen of woodwork draped between the tops of square bracketed posts. Also on the property is the contributing family cemetery.

Allen-Mangum House

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

Allen-Mangum House

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Plantation houses in North Carolina

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina

Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina

Greek Revival houses in North Carolina

Italianate architecture in North Carolina

Gothic Revival architecture in North Carolina

Houses completed in 1848

Houses in Granville County, North Carolina

National Register of Historic Places in Granville County, North Carolina

Allen-Mangum House