Belvidere Plantation House

Off SR 1565, Hampstead, North Carolina. County/parish: Pender.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places June 14, 1982. NRIS 82003495.

1 contributing building.

Also known as:

  • Merrick-Nixon House

From Wikipedia:

Belvidere Plantation House

Belvidere Plantation House, also known as the Merrick-Nixon House, is a historic plantation house located near Hampstead, Pender County, North Carolina, US. It was built about 1810 for slaveholder George Merrick, and was a 1+12-story, three-bay, gambrel-roofed dwelling with Georgian, Federal, and Greek Revival style design elements. It was sheathed in weatherboard and has exterior end chimneys and a shed-roofed front porch.

Its dilapidated structure burned to the ground on December 31, 2006, or January 1, 2007.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721708