Royster, Marcus, Plantation

NC 96, Wilbourns, North Carolina. County/parish: Granville.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places April 28, 1988. NRIS 88000409.

Part of Granville County MPS (NRIS 64500360).

10 contributing buildings. 1 contributing site. 1 contributing structure.

From Wikipedia:

Marcus Royster Plantation

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.

(read more...)

National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717883