Marcus Royster Plantation
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Marcus Royster Plantation | |
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| Location | NC 96, near Wilbourns, North Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 36°28′16″N 78°43′40″W / 36.47111°N 78.72778°W |
| Area | 307 acres (124 ha) |
| Built | c. 1850 |
| Architectural style | Greek Revival |
| MPS | Granville County MPS |
| NRHP reference No. | 88000409[1] |
| Added to NRHP | April 28, 1988 |
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.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.[1]
