Mills-Screven Plantation

Mills-Screven Plantation
Location NE of Tryon on SR 1509, Tryon, North Carolina
Coordinates 35°13′20″N 82°15′4″W / 35.22222°N 82.25111°WCoordinates: 35°13′20″N 82°15′4″W / 35.22222°N 82.25111°W
Area 11.1 acres (4.5 ha)
Built c. 1820-1840
Architectural style Greek Revival, Federal
Governing body Private
NRHP Reference # 83001904[1]
Added to NRHP February 17, 1983

Mills-Screven Plantation, also known as Hilltop, is a historic plantation complex located near Tryon, Polk County, North Carolina. The main house was built about 1820 and later expanded into the 1840s, and is a long two-story, seven bay, Federal / Greek Revival style frame dwelling. It features a two-tier, three-bay, pedimented Ionic order portico. Also on the property are the contributing stone springhouse, guesthouse part if which is said to have been a slave cabin, double pen log crib, and a larger 20th century frame barn.[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2010-07-09.
  2. Michael T. Southern, Janet Hutchison, and Joe Mobley, (April 1981). "Mills-Screven Plantation" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-02-01.