Antebellum architecture (meaning "prewar", from the Latin ante, "before", and bellum, "war") is the neoclassical architectural style characteristic of the 19th-century Southern United States, especially the Deep South, from after the birth of the United States with the American Revolution, to the start of the American Civil War. Antebellum architecture is especially characterized by Georgian, Neo-classical, and Greek Revival style plantation homes and mansions.
Many plantation houses still standing are of this style, including:
Barrington Hall in Roswell, Georgia
Bulloch Hall in Roswell, Georgia
Goodman-LeGrand House in Tyler, Texas
Monmouth Plantation, in Natchez, Mississippi
Myrtles Plantation, in St. Francisville, Louisiana
Boone Hall, near Charleston, South Carolina; built in 1936, but in the antebellum style.
The Hermitage, near Nashville, Tennessee
Longwood in Natchez, Mississippi
Millford Plantation in Pinewood, South Carolina
Nottoway Plantation in White Castle, Louisiana
Belle Grove Plantation in Iberville Parish, Louisiana, the largest plantation house ever built in the South.
Orton Plantation in Brunswick County, North Carolina
Rosedown Plantation in St. Francisville, Louisiana
Oak Alley Plantation in Vacherie, Louisiana
Belle Meade Plantation in Belle Meade, Tennessee
Waverley in West Point, Mississippi
Hunter-Dawson Home in New Madrid, Missouri
Carnton Plantation in Franklin, Tennessee
Rippavilla Plantation in Spring Hill, Tennessee
Glen Mary Plantation in Sparta, Georgia
Ward Hall in Georgetown, Kentucky
Evergreen Plantation in Wallace, Louisiana
The features associated with antebellum architecture were introduced by people of British descent who settled in the Southern states during the colonial period and in U.S. territories after the Louisiana Purchase of 1803.
