Westover is a historic mansion on a Southern plantation in

Milledgeville, Georgia Milledgeville is a city in and the county seat of Baldwin County in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is northeast of Macon and bordered on the east by the Oconee River. The rapid current of the river here made this an attractive location to buil ...

, US.

History

The plantation was established in the late 1810s. The great house was built in 1819 for John Clark, who served as the governor of Georgia from 1819 - 1824. It was later purchased by Congressman

Seaton Grantland Seaton Grantland (June 8, 1782 – October 18, 1864) was a United States representative from Georgia. He was born in New Kent County, Virginia. He pursued an academic course and studied law. He was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in ...

. It was inherited by his daughter, Mrs. DuBignon, in the 1860s. The plantation was acquired by Bim Richardson in the 1920s, who sold it to Carl Bentley in the 1940s.

Architectural significance

The plantation house has been listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

since June 22, 1979.

References

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Georgia (U.S. state) Houses completed in 1819 Houses in Baldwin County, Georgia Plantation houses in Georgia (U.S. state) National Register of Historic Places in Baldwin County, Georgia {{GeorgiaUS-NRHP-stub