Lewis_Wimbish_Plantation

Lewis Wimbish Plantation

Lewis Wimbish Plantation

Historic house in North Carolina, United States

Lewis Wimbish Plantation was a historic tobacco plantation house and national historic district located near Grassy Creek, Granville County, North Carolina. The house was built about 1850, and was a two-story, three-bay, "T"-plan, heavy timber frame Greek Revival style dwelling. It had a low hipped roof and front portico with four round columns and two pilasters. Also on the property were the contributing privy, outbuilding, hipped roof barn, stable, corn crib, tobacco barn, chicken house, and overseer's house.[2] It has been demolished.

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It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.[1]

References

  1. [1]
    "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. [2]
    Marvin A. Brown and Patricia Esperon (August 1987). "Lewis Wimbish Plantation" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved November 1, 2014.


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