Plantation house

Plantation house

The principal house of a southern plantation on which cash crops were cultivated; typically two stories with very tall windows, with a veranda across the entire front facade, supported by two-story columns.

plantation house

plantation house: Drayton Hall, South Carolina The principal house of a plantation in the antebellum American South, typically having many of the following characteristics: two stories; a projecting two-story portico with Classic columns and a recessed central bay; thick brick walls at ground level (often stuccoed);