Hope Plantation - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Hope Plantation - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Hope Plantation, built in 1803, is an early house built in the Palladian mode of the federal style, located on the Carolina Coastal Plain, near Windsor, North Carolina, in the United States. The plantation house was built by David Stone, a member of the coastal Carolina planter class, later Governor of North Carolina and a United States senator.Alan D. Watson, Bertie County, A Brief History, Raleigh, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, 1982, pp. 67-73, William S. Powell, Encyclopedia of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2006, p. 787. One of the finest examples of Palladian design built in timber, the manor house is slightly modified by neo-classical elements. The facade has five bays and a pedimented double portico with the original Chinese Chippendale balustrade. Crowning the house is a widow's walk with matching railing. The interior of the house displays a height and grandeur rare in the region, and is furnished with a unique collection of period furniture, art and artifacts.Bivins, John Jr. 'Furniture of the North Carolina Roanoke River Basin in the Collection of Historic Hope Foundation': Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts. Summer 1996. Read more on Wikipedia
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