Lewis Wimbish Plantation


Lewis Wimbish Plantation
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
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Location	NC 1443, near Grassy Creek, North Carolina
Coordinates	36°31′21″N 78°35′22″W / 36.52250°N 78.58944°W / 36.52250; -78.58944Coordinates: 36°31′21″N 78°35′22″W / 36.52250°N 78.58944°W / 36.52250; -78.58944
Area	31 acres (13 ha)
Built	c. 1850 (1850)
Architectural style	Greek Revival
MPS	Granville County MPS
NRHP Reference #	88000418^[1]
Added to NRHP	April 28, 1988

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.

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

References

1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ 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 2014-11-01.

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