Belvidere Plantation House

	Belvidere Plantation House
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	Off SR 1565, near Hampstead, North Carolina
Coordinates	34°23′5″N 77°38′51″W / 34.38472°N 77.64750°W
Area	152.9 acres (61.9 ha)
Built	c. 1810
Architectural style	Greek Revival, Georgian, Federal
NRHP reference No.	82003495
Added to NRHP	June 14, 1982

Belvidere Plantation House, also known as the Merrick-Nixon House, is a historic plantation house located near Hampstead, Pender County, North Carolina, US. It was built about 1810 for slaveholder George Merrick, and is a 1+1⁄2-story, three-bay, gambrel-roofed dwelling with Georgian, Federal, and Greek Revival style design elements. It is sheathed in weatherboard and has exterior end chimneys and a shed-roofed front porch.^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.^[1]

It was purposely burned to the ground on December 31, 2006, or January 1, 2007, by the developer of a waterfront community on Sloop Point Road in Hampstead. Instead of working with the Pender County Historical Society to see if Belvedere Plantation house could be saved by moving it to another location as had been requested, the home was instead turned over by the owners of the Virginia Bay property to the Sloop Point Volunteer Fire Department to burn down. The importance of the home to the community was probably unknown to the volunteer fire department.

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Renee Gledhill-Earley and Walter D. Best (April 1981). "Belvidere Plantation House" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-02-01.

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[nrhpinv-2] Renee Gledhill-Earley and Walter D. Best (April 1981). "Belvidere Plantation House" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-02-01.

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