Kelvin (Pittsboro, North Carolina)

{{short description|Historic house in North Carolina, United States}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}}

{{Infobox NRHP

| name = Kelvin

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| location = 503 W. Salisbury St., Pittsboro, North Carolina

| coordinates = {{coord|35|43|16|N|79|11|3|W|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = North Carolina#USA

| built = c. {{Start date|1831}}, c. 1838

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| architecture = Federal

| added = October 5, 1982

| area = less than one acre

| mpsub = {{NRHP url|id=64000462|title=Pittsboro MRA}}

| refnum = 82001286{{NRISref|version=2010a}}

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Kelvin was a historic home located at Pittsboro, Chatham County, North Carolina.[http://d.lib.ncsu.edu/collections/catalog/bh1090pnc002 "Doorway, Kelvin, Pittsboro, Chatham County, North Carolina"] NSCU Libraries. Retrieved 2015-2-26. It was built about 1831, was a two-story, five bay Federal style single pile frame dwelling. The house had a gable roof and exterior end chimneys. It had a one-story addition built about 1838. It originally housed a private girls school established by wealthy landowner Colonel Edward Jones Kelvin.{{Cite web | author =Ruth Selden-Sturgill| title =Kelvin| work = National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory | date =March 1982| url = https://files.nc.gov/ncdcr/nr/CH0077.pdf | format = pdf | publisher = North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office | accessdate = 2014-08-01}} It has been demolished.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.