A very intact, antebellum plantation house and its outbuildings. Although unrestored, the house is still owned by members of the original family that built this fine house and who ensure that it is watched by caretakers to protect it from major decay and intruders. The front section of the house is Greek Revival and was built around 1850 as a major expansion for a growing family who had been living in the 1820's Federal house. | Preservation Nation - Dustin Van Fleet

Coolmore is probably one of the grandest Italianate plantation houses in the southeastern part of the country, with almost all of its original outbuildings still in existance and designed to complement the big house. This house was begun in late 1857 and completed just before the Civil War in 1860 and is still lived in by the original family, although now owned to ensure perpetual preservation by Preservation NC. It was designed by English-born architect E.G. Lind of Baltimore, MD. The house was