Marcus Royster Plantation

Historic farm in North Carolina, United States

United States historic place


Marcus Royster Plantation
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district

36°28′16″N 78°43′40″W / 36.47111°N 78.72778°W / 36.47111; -78.72778
Area	307 acres (124 ha)
Built	c. 1850 (1850)
Architectural style	Greek Revival
MPS	Granville County MPS
NRHP reference No.	88000409^[1]
Added to NRHP	April 28, 1988

Marcus Royster Plantation is a historic tobacco plantation house and national historic district located near Wilbourns, Granville County, North Carolina. The house was built about 1850, and is a two-story, three-bay, "T"-plan, heavy timber frame Greek Revival style dwelling. It has a low hipped roof and classical portico. Also on the property are the contributing air-curing barn, smokehouse, two log tobacco barns, log corn crib, two frame barns, a small log barn, frame smokehouse, and a frame former tenant house.^[2]

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

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Marvin A. Brown and Patricia Esperon (August 1987). "Marcus Royster Plantation" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved November 1, 2014.