Antebellum architecture

Barrington Hall is one classic example of an antebellum home.

Antebellum architecture (sometimes spelled ante-bellum, meaning "pre-war", from the Latin ante, "before", and bellum, "war") is a term used to describe the characteristic neoclassical architectural style of the Southern United States, especially the Old South, from after the birth of the United States in the American Revolution, to the start of the American Civil War.^{[1][unreliable source?]} Antebellum architecture is especially characterized by neoclassical and Greek revival style plantation houses and mansions.

Examples

Many plantation houses still standing are of this style, including:

• Barrington Hall in Roswell, Georgia
• Bulloch Hall in Roswell, Georgia
• Goodman-LeGrand House in Tyler, TX
• Monmouth Plantation, in Natchez, Mississippi
• Boone Hall, near Charleston, South Carolina; built in 1936, but in the antebellum style.
• The Hermitage (Tennessee)
• Longwood (Natchez, Mississippi)
• Millford Plantation
• Nottoway Plantation
• Belle Grove Plantation (Iberville Parish, Louisiana), the largest plantation house ever built in the South.^{[citation needed]}
• Orton Plantation
• Rosedown Plantation in St. Francisville, Louisiana
• Oak Alley Plantation
• Belle Meade Plantation
• Waverley (West Point, Mississippi)
• Carnton Plantation in Franklin, Tennessee
• Rippavilla Plantation
• Glen Mary Plantation in Sparta, Georgia
• Ward Hall (Georgetown, Kentucky)
• Evergreen Plantation (Wallace, Louisiana)

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