Matthews Place

SE of Hollister, Hollister, North Carolina. County/parish: Halifax.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places November 11, 1974. NRIS 74001352.

2 contributing buildings.

Also known as:

  • Ivey Hill

From Wikipedia:

Matthews Place

Matthews Place, also known as Ivey Hill, is a historic plantation house located near Hollister, Halifax County, North Carolina. It consists of two houses: a two-story, three-bay, Georgian-style frame dwelling dated to about 1800, attached to a two-story, three-bay, Greek Revival-style frame dwelling added about 1847. The houses are set a right angles to the other. The older house has a single-shoulder brick chimney. The Greek Revival house features a pedimented front entrance porch with simple fluted Doric order columns.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720672