Burnside Plantation House Explained

Burnside Plantation House
Location:	On SR 1335, near Williamsboro, North Carolina
Coordinates:	36.4339°N -78.4625°W
Built:	c., c. 1824
Architecture:	Federal
Added:	April 16, 1971
Refnum:	71000621

Burnside Plantation House is a historic plantation house located near Williamsboro, Vance County, North Carolina. The house in its current form was constructed ca. 1800, remodeled before 1824, includes interior carved woodwork characteristic of the classic revival style and a colonial-era smokehouse dated to about 1760.^[1] It is a two-story, five-bay, Federal style frame dwelling with a sheathed weatherboard and gabled roof. Each gable end has a pair of brick chimneys with stepped weatherings.

Originally the home of Memucan Hunt, early American statesman and first Treasurer of North Carolina, during the American Civil War, it was the residence of Thomas Hardy, whose daughter, Pinckney Hardy, became the mother of General Douglas MacArthur.^{[2] [3]}

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.

Notes and References

1. Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, 6 volumes, edited by William S. Powell. Copyright ©1979-1996 by the University of North Carolina Press
2. Web site: John B. Wells, III . Greer Suttlemyre . amp . Burnside Plantation House . National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . December 1970. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office . 2014-08-01.
3. "Hunt, Memucan" Walser H. Allen, Jr., 1988; Revised by Jared Dease, Government and Heritage Library, December 2022