Spring Bank (Lunenburg Courthouse, Virginia) Explained

Spring Bank
Designated Other1:Virginia Landmarks Register
Designated Other1 Date:June 6, 2007[1]
Designated Other1 Number:055-0017
Designated Other1 Num Position:bottom
Coordinates:36.87°N -78.4106°W
Built:c.
Builder:Jacob Shelor; John Inge
Architecture:Georgian
Added:August 16, 2007
Refnum:07000825

Spring Bank, also known as Ravenscroft and Magnolia Grove, is a historic plantation house located near Lunenburg, Lunenburg County, Virginia. It was built about 1793, and is a five-part Palladian plan frame dwelling in the Late Georgian style. It is composed of a two-story, three-bay center block flanked by one-story, one-bay, hipped roof wings with one-story, one-bay shed-roofed wings at the ends. Also on the property are the contributing smokehouse, a log slave quarter, and frame tobacco barn, and the remains of late-18th or early-19th century dependencies, including a kitchen/laundry, ice house, spring house, and a dam. Also located on the property are a family cemetery and two other burial grounds. It was built by John Stark Ravenscroft (1772–1830), who became the first Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina, serving from 1823 to 1830.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Virginia Landmarks Register. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. 5 June 2013.
  2. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Spring Bank . Kimberly M. Chen and Hannah Collins. n.d.. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo