Elmwood is a historic

plantation A plantation is an agricultural estate, generally centered on a plantation house, meant for farming that specializes in cash crops, usually mainly planted with a single crop, with perhaps ancillary areas for vegetables for eating and so on. The ...

and national

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located near

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Granville County, North Carolina Granville County is a county located on the northern border of the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 60,992. Its county seat is Oxford. Granville County encompasses Oxford, NC Micropolitan Statistical Are ...

. The

plantation house 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 e ...

was built in 1805, and is a two-story, three bay

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style heavy timber frame dwelling. It has a gable roof and double-shouldered exterior end chimneys. It was listed on the

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in 1988.

References

Plantation houses in North Carolina Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Georgian architecture in North Carolina Houses completed in 1805 Houses in Granville County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Granville County, North Carolina 1805 establishments in North Carolina {{GranvilleCountyNC-NRHP-stub