Locust Lawn

Locust Lawn is a historic tobacco plantation house and national historic district located near Oxford, Granville County, North Carolina. It was built about 1855 by Armistead Ravenscroft Burwell, a descendant of the prominent Burwell Family of Virginia, and is a two-story, three-bay, T-shaped Greek Revival style dwelling. The property includes a two-story rear ell, a one-story kitchen wing, a brick cellar and a central front porch. Also on the property are contributing six log tobacco barns, two frame barns, a frame corncrib, an overseer's house, and the Burwell Family cemetery. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

Locust Lawn was built about 1855 by Armistead Ravenscroft Burwell, a descendant of the prominent Burwell Family of Virginia. The main house is a two-story, three-bay, T-shaped Greek Revival style dwelling with a two-story rear ell, a one-story kitchen wing, a brick cellar and a central front porch. The surrounding plantation landscape retains contributing agricultural outbuildings, including six log tobacco barns, two frame barns, a frame corncrib, and an overseer's house, as well as the Burwell Family cemetery. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988 as a historic district.

• 1988

  Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

• 1855

  Built about 1855 by Armistead Ravenscroft Burwell.

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