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Early twentieth century · 1900–1944
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Mack and Julie Rigsbee buy lots in the Bankhead Forest development
The Rigsbees bought lots 72 to 75 in Block D of the Bankhead Forest property east of Hillsborough in June 1927 and the adjoining lots 68 to 71 in April 1928. Their stone country house and its outbuildings went up on the combined lots.
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Mack and Julie Rigsbee build a white-quartz country house east of Hillsborough
Around 1929 the Rigsbees built a rambling story-and-a-half house faced with white quartz on two wooded acres east of Hillsborough, with a quartz wall, garage, pump house and swimming pool to match. Local stories say the couple sold whiskey and hid it in the roof.
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Mack and Julie Rigsbee lose their Rock House after defaulting on the mortgage
About two years after moving into their white flint house, the Rigsbees defaulted on the mortgage in 1931, and the place passed through a series of owners. Court records later tie Mack Rigsbee to whiskey convictions in Durham and Granville counties.
Recent decades · 1976–2026
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Rigsbee's Rock House joins the Study List
The National Register Advisory Committee placed Mack and Julie Rigsbee's quartz-faced Rock House east of Hillsborough on North Carolina's Study List, its list of properties likely to qualify for the National Register.
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James and Judy Singleton restore Rigsbee's Rock House
New owners who bought the neglected house in June 1986 carried out its one major refurbishing in 1986-87, keeping the original fabric while reworking the kitchen and upstairs baths. The rock garage became a guest apartment in 1986.
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Rigsbee's Rock House is listed in the National Register
Rigsbee's Rock House was entered in the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
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