Nancy Jones House, Historic residence in Wake County, North Carolina.

The Nancy Jones House is a residential structure with Federal architectural features built from wood during the early nineteenth century. The building displays typical characteristics of home construction from that period in North Carolina.

Nathaniel Jones of Crabtree built the house in 1803 on a 2,000-acre plantation on Chapel Hill Road. His son Henry inherited it in 1809 and, after marrying Nancy Ann Jones in 1813, ran a stagecoach stop and tavern here that maps of the era call Jones Ordinary. Nancy took over the tavern, serving midday meals and brandy rather than overnight lodging, and after Henry died in 1841 she kept it running for another 30 years.

Locals called it Jones Ordinary, after the tavern licence term. Nancy Jones served midday meals and brandy but no overnight lodging, and an enslaved server named Laney once reported Governor Edward B. Dudley's remark, "Its a damned long time between drinks", to her.

The house now stands about 500 feet down Chapel Hill Road from its original site, on 1.17 acres conveyed to Cary in December 2020. The town paid $100,000 for the building in 2019 and set aside $900,000 to move and stabilize it. The move itself took five hours on March 20, 2021, with Chapel Hill Road closed to traffic.

During the Civil War in 1865, General Francis Preston Blair Jr. used the house as headquarters for his Union forces. This military occupation remains a lesser-known aspect of the local war story.