NRHP Reference # 96000495 Designated VLR October 18, 1995 Added to NRHP 26 April 1996 | VLR # 041-0157 Area 57 ha Built by Thomas Day | |
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Location VA 697, 500 ft. W of jct. with VA 696, Alton, Virginia Architectural style Early Republic, Greek Revival | ||
Brandon Plantation is a historic plantation home located near Alton, Halifax County, Virginia. The main house is a two-part, frame vernacular farmhouse. The earliest section of the farmhouse is a single-pile, three-bay, gable-roof dwelling erected about 1800. Attached to the east end is a two-bay section added about 1842. The interior features details attributed to Thomas Day, a well-known African-American cabinetmaker from Milton, North Carolina. The farmhouse underwent an extensive remodeling and modernization in the early 1960s but preserves a significant degree of architectural integrity. Also on the property are a contributing frame kitchen / slave quarter outbuilding, an early stone-lined well, and the sites of early agricultural outbuildings.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.