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.[2] 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.
Burnside Plantation House | |
 Burnside Plantation House, 1938, Frances Benjamin Johnston | |
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| Location | On SR 1335, near Williamsboro, North Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 36°26′02″N 78°27′45″W / 36.43389°N 78.46250°W |
| Area | 8 acres (3.2 ha) |
| Built | c. 1800, c. 1824 |
| Architectural style | Federal |
| NRHP reference No. | 71000621[1] |
| Added to NRHP | April 16, 1971 |
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.[3][4]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, 6 volumes, edited by William S. Powell. Copyright ©1979-1996 by the University of North Carolina Press
- ^ John B. Wells, III & Greer Suttlemyre (December 1970). "Burnside Plantation House" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-08-01.
- ^ "Hunt, Memucan" Walser H. Allen, Jr., 1988; Revised by Jared Dease, Government and Heritage Library, December 2022
External links
edit- Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. NC-167, "Burnside Plantation, State Route 1335, Williamsboro, Vance County, NC", 3 photos