Belvidere Plantation House

Belvidere Plantation House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	Off SR 1565, near Hampstead, North Carolina
Coordinates	34.395539, -77.642234
Area	152.9 acres (61.9 ha)
Built	c. 1810 (1810)
Architectural style	Greek Revival, Georgian, Federal
NRHP reference No.	82003495 [1]
Added to NRHP	June 14, 1982

Belvidere Plantation House, also known as the Merrick-Nixon House, is a historic plantation house located near Hampstead, Pender County, North Carolina, US. It was built about 1810 for slaveholder George Merrick, and was a 1+1⁄2-story, three-bay, gambrel-roofed dwelling with Georgian, Federal, and Greek Revival style design elements. It was sheathed in weatherboard and has exterior end chimneys and a shed-roofed front porch. ^[2]

Its dilapidated structure burned to the ground on December 31, 2006, or January 1, 2007.

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Renee Gledhill-Earley and Walter D. Best (April 1981). "Belvidere Plantation House" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved February 1, 2015.