Spring Bank (Lunenburg Courthouse, Virginia)

Spring Bank
Location 1070 Courthouse Rd., near Lunenburg, Virginia
Coordinates 37°03′56″N 78°10′30″W / 37.06556°N 78.17500°W / 37.06556; -78.17500Coordinates: 37°03′56″N 78°10′30″W / 37.06556°N 78.17500°W / 37.06556; -78.17500
Area 150 acres (61 ha)
Built c. 1793 (1793)
Built by Shelor, Jacob; Inge, John
Architectural style Georgian
NRHP Reference # 07000825[1]
VLR # 055-0017
Significant dates
Added to NRHP August 16, 2007
Designated VLR June 6, 2007[2]

Spring Bank, also known as Ravenscroft and Magnolia Grove, is a historic plantation house located near Lunenburg, Lunenburg County, Virginia. It was built about 1793, and is a five-part Palladian plan frame dwelling in the Late Georgian style. It is composed of a two-story, three-bay center block flanked by one-story, one-bay, hipped roof wings with one-story, one-bay shed-roofed wings at the ends. Also on the property are the contributing smokehouse, a log slave quarter, and frame tobacco barn, and the remains of late-18th or early-19th century dependencies, including a kitchen/laundry, ice house, spring house, and a dam. Also located on the property are a family cemetery and two other burial grounds. It was built by John Stark Ravenscroft (1772–1830), who became the first Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina, serving from 1823-1830.[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Staff (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  3. Kimberly M. Chen and Hannah Collins (n.d.). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Spring Bank" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo


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