When you visit the Kitchen Office, keep in mind that while it may appear primitive by today’s standards, it represented the very latest in “modern” conveniences of 1770. The sights, sounds and smells of an 18th-century kitchen await you here.
There are early maps of North Carolina on the walls of the office of the governor’s secretary, and upstairs, rooms are laid out as they might have been when they were used as living quarters for the servants.