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1870s photo of the brick slave quarters at Hermitage Plantation (now destroyed) near Savannah, Georgia. Housing for enslaved people, although once one of the most common and distinctive features of the plantation landscape, has largely disappeared in much of the South.
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the United States of America that are national memorials, National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places or other heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
A plantation house is the main house of a plantation, often a substantial farmhouse, which often serves as a symbol for the plantation as a whole. Plantation houses in the Southern United States and in other areas are known as quite grand and expensive architectural works today, though most were more utilitarian, working farmhouses.
Slave Houses, Gregg Plantation, Mars Bluff, South Carolina, NRHP-listed; Annandale Plantation (Georgetown County, South Carolina) Fox House (Lexington, South Carolina) Oakwood (Gadsden, South Carolina) Old House Plantation, South Carolina; Boone Hall, South Carolina; Brookland Plantation, South Carolina; Drayton Hall, South Carolina
An estimated 20% of antebellum mansions remain intact in the south today due to many being burned during the Civil War, natural disasters, and their neglect. Many antebellum homes are now museums; Georgia's Old Governor's Mansion is an example of this. The mansion belongs to Georgia College, and is its most treasured structure. In 2001, the ...
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Georgia that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
Frozard Plantation House: August 12, 1982: Grand Coteau St. Landry 93001548 Godchaux–Reserve Plantation: January 21, 1994: Reserve St. John the Baptist: 97000967 Gracelane Plantation House: August 29, 1997: Baton Rouge East Baton Rouge: 92000510 Graugnard Farms Plantation House: May 14, 1992: St. James St. James: 82000451 Harlem Plantation ...
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of South Carolina that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.