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026 Shop(17). The repair shop stands on the former site of the late 1800s Oliver's blacksmith shop. The Benjamin C. Patton and Allen A. Ellis General Stores(13)are two notable rural vernacular renditions of commercial store buildings which have historically contributed to the perception of the community as a veritable destination point in the rural county. To the south of the Allen A. Ellis Store on Carr Store Road (SR 1004),a plaque commemorates the historic location of the Cedar Grove well,where according to local history, nineteenth-century stagecoaches customarily made water stops. To the south of the well site is the ca. 1880 Allen A. Ellis House(14). Three examples of typical rural vernacular late nineteenth-century 1- story I-houses,the Hayes-Hall(9),the Coleman Burch(8)and the Hughes-Greene(7)Houses are situated on the south side facing the former roadbed of Carr Store Road. To the west of the crossroads several notable houses survive including the ca. 1890 John Paisley Hughes House(1)and the 1912 Colonial Revival Dr. Claude M. Hughes(10)and John Tolar(4)Houses,all owned by family descendants. The John Paisley Hughes House,a vernacular style farmhouse,and associated open land anchors the west end of the district. Two architecturally distinctive church buildings have served as gathering places for community; the Cedar Grove Methodist (22)erected in 1939 and the Eno Presbyterian (28)erected between 1897 and 1899. The rusticly handsome Cedar Grove United Methodist Church,a 2-story cross-gabled stone structure, is sited a short distance to the north of the crossroads. The cemetery,possessing stones dating to as early as the 1880s radiates from the north side of the church building and lends to the picturesque setting. Beyond the church to the north,the landscape becomes more residential in character with a variety of vernacularly interpreted architectural styles. The Eno Presbyterian Church,a brick veneered cross-gabled structure of which the original portion dates to 1899,anchors the northernmost end of the district. At the southernmost end of the district is the Hughes-Lindsay House and Farm(15)within its original context surrounded by cultivated fields fronting the west side of Efland-Cedar Grove Road. Thus,the built resources of the community represent a layering of periods and styles with an underlying continuity of ownership.