Locust Lawn (Oxford, North Carolina)

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Locust Lawn
Nearest city Oxford, North Carolina
Area16 acres (6.5 ha)
Builtc. 1855 (1855)
Architectural styleGreek Revival
MPS Granville County MPS
NRHP reference No. 88000422 [1]
Added to NRHPApril 28, 1988

Locust Lawn is a historic tobacco plantation house and national historic district located near Oxford, Granville County, North Carolina. It was built about 1855 by Armistead Ravenscroft Burwell, a descendant of the prominent Burwell Family of Virginia [2] and is a two-story, three-bay, T-shaped Greek Revival style dwelling. It has a two-story rear ell, one-story kitchen wing, brick cellar and central front porch. Also on the property are the contributing six log tobacco barns, two frame barns, frame corncrib, overseer's house, and Burwell Family cemetery. [3]

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

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. Parker, R. The Burwells of Kingsmill and Stoneland.
  3. Marvin A. Brown and Patricia Esperon (August 1987). "Locust Lawn" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved November 1, 2014.