Bryan-Bell Farm

Bryan-Bell Farm
Bryan-Bell Farm, September 2014
Location NC 58, 1 miles E of SR 1119, near Pollocksville, North Carolina
Coordinates 34°59′51″N 77°15′20″W / 34.99750°N 77.25556°W / 34.99750; -77.25556Coordinates: 34°59′51″N 77°15′20″W / 34.99750°N 77.25556°W / 34.99750; -77.25556
Area 2,251 acres (911 ha)
Built 1844 (1844), c. 1920
Architectural style Classical Revival, Federal
NRHP Reference # 89002155[1]
Added to NRHP December 21, 1989

Bryan-Bell Farm, also known as Oakview Plantation, is a historic plantation house and farm complex and national historic district located near Pollocksville, Jones County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 25 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 2 contributing structures spread over seven areas. The main house was built about 1844 in the Federal style, and renovated in 1920 in the Classical Revival style. It is a 2 1/2-story, five bay, frame residence with a monumental portico with Corinthian order columns. Among the other contributing resources are the farm landscape, office (1920s), seven pack houses (1920s), equipment building (c. 1939), storage building (c. 1930), barn (c. 1840), two chicken houses (c. 1923), stable / carriage house (c. 1920), two garages (c. 1930s), equipment shed (c. 1930), metal silo (c. 1930), hay barn (c. 1932), two tobacco barns (c. 1920), I-house (c. 1880), a log barn (c. 1890), a small plank building, farm house (c. 1900), and 19th century graveyard.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Staff (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. David R. and Allison H. Black (August 1989). "Bryan-Bell Farm" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-01-01.


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