Brookland (Grassy Creek, North Carolina)


Brookland
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
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Location	NC 1443, near Grassy Creek, North Carolina
Coordinates	36°31′03″N 78°34′32″W / 36.51750°N 78.57556°W / 36.51750; -78.57556Coordinates: 36°31′03″N 78°34′32″W / 36.51750°N 78.57556°W / 36.51750; -78.57556
Area	23 acres (9.3 ha)
Built	1817 (1817)
Architectural style	Georgian, Federal
MPS	Granville County MPS
NRHP Reference #	88000412^[1]
Added to NRHP	April 28, 1988

Brookland is a historic tobacco plantation complex and national historic district located near Grassy Creek, Granville County, North Carolina. The plantation house was built about 1817, and is a two-story, four bay, heavy timber frame Georgian / Federal style dwelling. It has a gable roof, hall-and-parlor plan, and cut stone exterior end chimneys. Also on the property are the contributing kitchen, smokehouse, schoolhouse, three log tobacco barns, log striphouse, log stable, hay barn, chicken house, and a frame smokehouse.^[2]

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

References

1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ Marvin A. Brown and Patricia Esperon (August 1987). "Brookland" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-11-01.

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