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Marcus Royster Plantation

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Built
  
c. 1850 (1850)

NRHP Reference #
  
88000409

Added to NRHP
  
28 April 1988

MPS
  
Granville County MPS

Area
  
124 ha

Marcus Royster Plantation

Location
  
NC 96, near Wilbourns, North Carolina

Architectural style
  
Greek Revival architecture

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.

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

References

Marcus Royster Plantation Wikipedia