The grand interior of this 5 bedroom, two-story Victorian home has
spacious rooms, marble and slate fireplaces, beautiful moldings, heart
pine floors, period light fixtures/chandeliers, built-ins, sunroom, 4
covered porches, patio, and fenced backyard on an 0.86 acre landscaped
lot. This property is ready for you to move into and apply your personal
touches at your own pace.
The Pippen House, also known locally as the Pippen-Staton House, is
without question the finest example of post-Civil War Victorian
Italianate architecture in Tarboro and the surrounding region.
Built by
William Mayo Pippen (1830-1889), this large old mansion, unofficially
known locally as “Pippen’s Palace”, sits on an unusually large lot which
originally encompassed the entire block. Its elaborate design and
similarities to the few other comparable North Carolina houses,
especially in Raleigh, strongly suggest that G.S.H. Appleget was the
architect and builder. He was one of North Carolina’s leading architects
just after the Civil War, having moved to the state in 1869 after a
successful career designing buildings in New York, Philadelphia and
other large northern cities.
Appleget houses, if they still remain, are
often the largest and finest of the Victorian houses in the older,
wealthier towns and cities of central and eastern North Carolina.