Vernon Place, also known as the Cowper-Taylor House, is a historic

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 ...

located near

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. It is dated to the late-1820s, and is a two-story, five-bay, T-plan, transitional

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Greek Revival The Greek Revival was an architectural movement which began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and the United States and Canada, but ...

frame dwelling. It has a low-pitched, gable roof and

Colonial Revival The Colonial Revival architectural style seeks to revive elements of American colonial architecture. The beginnings of the Colonial Revival style are often attributed to the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, which reawakened Americans to the archi ...

style one-story hip-roof wraparound porch added about 1900. Also on the property are the contributing one-room, -story frame Federal style house, wellhouse, and a Delco plant. It was listed on the

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in 1982.

External links

NRHP Inventory for Vernon Place

References

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