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Melrose, also known as the Williamson House, is a historic plantation house located near Yanceyville, Caswell County, North Carolina. It consists of two two-story, frame blocks connected by a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story breezeway. The original section dated to about 1780 and is a two-story, frame single pile block with Federal style details.
Olzie Whitehead Williams House is a historic home located near Wilson, Wilson County, North Carolina. It was built about 1860, and is a single-story, six-bay, L-shaped, Italianate style frame house with a gabled projecting end pavilion. It rests on a low brick pier foundation and is sheathed in weatherboard.
In the early 1900s, there were 328 plantations identified in North Carolina from extant records. [ 10 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] The Sloop Point plantation in Pender County, built in 1729, is the oldest surviving plantation house and the second oldest house surviving in North Carolina, after the Lane House (built in 1718–1719 and not part of a plantation).
Robert Williams House is a historic home located near Eastover, Cumberland County, North Carolina. It was built about 1850, and is a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story Greek Revival style Coastal Cottage form dwelling. It has a gable roof with exterior end chimneys and features an engaged porch.
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Holbrook–Ross Street Historic District is a national historic district located in Danville, Virginia. The district includes 107 contributing buildings in a primarily African-American neighborhood of Danville. It includes a full range of late 19th and early 20th century residential, commercial, and institutional structures.
It should be noted that there are over 200 antebellum (pre-Civil War period) former plantation homes still standing in North Carolina, most privately owned and not open to the public (with the exception of several house museums and B&B's).
Alfred and Martha Jane Thompson House and Williams Barn is a historic home located near New Hope, Wilson County, North Carolina.It was built in approximately 1895, and is a one-story, three-bay, frame double-pile dwelling with Greek Revival and Italianate style design elements.