Pender Museum of Edgecombe County History

(Silas and Rebecca Everitt House, circa 1810)

Built about 1810 for Silas and Rebecca Everitt, this modest hall-parlor house with a broken pitch gable roof is typical of the coastal plain house for middling and small North Carolina farmers throughout most of the nineteenth century. This small house is finished in a manner comparable to larger houses along the Tar River, including tapered porch post with molded caps, intricate dentil cornices and decoratively painted interior paneling and mantels.

In the 1980s the Pender family of Edgecombe County donated funds to move and preserve this house from the county to the grounds of the Blount-Bridgers House. Today, the museum is furnished with local hand-made furniture of the coastal plain. Many of these pieces are from local Edgecombe County families.

The Pender Museum of History is open by appointment only. Please call 823-4159.