Locust Lawn (Oxford, North Carolina) Explained

Locust Lawn
Nrhp Type:hd
Nocat:yes
Nearest City:Oxford, North Carolina
Built:c.
Architecture:Greek Revival
Added:April 28, 1988
Refnum:88000422

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[1] 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.[2]

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

Notes and References

  1. Parker, R. The Burwells of Kingsmill and Stoneland.
  2. Web site: Marvin A. Brown and Patricia Esperon . Locust Lawn. National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . August 1987. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office . 2014-11-01.