Lewis Wimbish Plantation Explained

Lewis Wimbish Plantation
Nrhp Type:hd
Nocat:yes
Location:NC 1443, near Grassy Creek, North Carolina
Coordinates:36.5225°N -78.5894°W
Built:c.
Architecture:Greek Revival
Added:April 28, 1988
Refnum:88000418

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.[1] It has been demolished.

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

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Marvin A. Brown and Patricia Esperon . Lewis Wimbish Plantation . National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . August 1987. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office . 2014-11-01.