Elgin 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 ...

located near Warrenton,

Warren County, North Carolina Warren County is a County (United States), county located in the northeastern Piedmont (United States), Piedmont region of the U.S. state of North Carolina, on the northern border with Virginia, made famous for a Warren County PCB Landfill, lan ...

. It was built about 1835, and is a two-story, three-bay, Federal-style temple-form frame dwelling. It has a gable roof, pedimented front porch, and flanking porches. At the rear is an earlier -story frame dwelling with a gable roof. The front facade features a Palladian entrance with sidelights and Tuscan colonnettes. The house is similar in style to

Dalkeith Dalkeith ( ; , ) is a town in Midlothian, Scotland, on the River Esk. It was granted a burgh of barony in 1401 and a burgh of regality in 1541. The settlement of Dalkeith grew southwestwards from its 12th-century castle (now Dalkeith Pala ...

. It was listed on the

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in 1973.

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* *https://brucejohnsonstudios.com/uncategorized/architectural-photography-and-virtual-tours-of-the-elgin-plantation-in-warrenton-north-carolina-by-bruce-johnson-studios/, 15 pictures and a full immersive 360 degree Virtual Tour Plantation houses in North Carolina Historic American Buildings Survey in North Carolina Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Federal architecture in North Carolina Houses completed in 1830 Houses in Warren County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Warren County, North Carolina {{WarrenCountyNC-NRHP-stub