Built c. 1793 (1793) VLR # 055-0017 Area 61 ha Added to NRHP 16 August 2007 | NRHP Reference # 07000825 Designated VLR June 6, 2007 Architectural style Georgian architecture | |
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Location 1070 Courthouse Rd., near Lunenburg, Virginia Built by Jacob Shelor; John Inge | ||
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 1823-1830.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.