Lewis Wimbish Plantation

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Lewis Wimbish Plantation
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LocationNC 1443, near Grassy Creek, North Carolina
Coordinates 36°31′21″N78°35′22″W / 36.52250°N 78.58944°W / 36.52250; -78.58944
Area31 acres (13 ha)
Builtc. 1850 (1850)
Architectural styleGreek Revival
MPS Granville County MPS
NRHP reference No. 88000418 [1]
Added to NRHPApril 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]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  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.