A view of the "Old Kentucky Home", now the Thomas Wolfe Memorial, North Carolina state historic site. The home was built in 1883 and became a memorial in 1947. It was made a state historic site in 1976.

"Dixieland was a big cheaply constructed frame house of eighteen or twenty drafty high-ceilinged rooms: it had a rambling, unplanned, gabular appearance, and was painted a dirty yellow. It had a pleasant green front yard, not deep but wide, bordered by a row of young deep-bodied maples: there was a sloping depth of one hundred and ninety feet, a frontage of one hundred and twenty."