John P. Lawrence Plantation

Historic house in North Carolina, United States

United States historic place


John P. Lawrence Plantation
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district

36°06′56″N 78°35′31″W / 36.11556°N 78.59194°W / 36.11556; -78.59194
Area	8.5 acres (3.4 ha)
Built	c. 1845 (1845)
Architectural style	Greek Revival
MPS	Granville County MPS
NRHP reference No.	88001264^[1]
Added to NRHP	August 31, 1988

John P. Lawrence Plantation is a historic tobacco plantation house and national historic district located near Grissom, Granville County, North Carolina. The house was built about 1845, and is a two-story, three-bay, "T"-plan, heavy timber frame Greek Revival style dwelling. It has a low hipped roof, brick-walled basement, and one-story front porch with a hipped roof. Also on the property are the contributing smokehouse, kitchen, schoolhouse, corn crib, and gambrel roofed stable.^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Marvin A. Brown and Patricia Esperon (August 1987). "John P. Lawrence Plantation" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved November 1, 2014.