Marcus Royster Plantation Explained

Marcus Royster Plantation
Nrhp Type:hd
Nocat:yes
Location:NC 96, near Wilbourns, North Carolina
Coordinates:36.4711°N -78.7278°W
Built:c.
Architecture:Greek Revival
Added:April 28, 1988
Refnum:88000409

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.[1]

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

Notes and References

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