Farmville Plantation is a historic plantation house located near the historic location, called Elmwood south of Statesville in Iredell County, North Carolina. It consists of two Federal style houses. The main house was built about 1818, and is a two-story, three bay by two bay, brick dwelling with a two-story entrance

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. The house is also known as the Joseph Chambers house or Darshana. The main house has a low gable roof and one-story rear shed porch. Attached to it by a

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is a smaller two-story, three bay by two bay

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ed brick dwelling. The house was restored in the 1960s. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

History

The Farmville Plantation was built by Joseph Chambers (17911848) in about 1820. The land was worked by enslaved people who were held on the plantation. Joseph's son, Pinckney Brown Chambers (18211905) was born on the plantation and inherited it from his father.

References

Plantation houses in North Carolina Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Federal architecture in North Carolina Houses completed in 1818 Houses in Iredell County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Iredell County, North Carolina {{IredellCountyNC-NRHP-stub