Hayes Plantation House

Contributors:

Badham Family, carpenters; Dave Dickinson, plasterer; Benjamin French, plasterer; Miles Badham I, carpenter; Jim Millen, workman; William Nichols, architect and house carpenter; John Walker, workman; Joe Welcome, brickmason

Dates:

1814-1817

Location:

Edenton, Chowan County

Street Address:

Hayes Plantation, Edenton vicinity, NC

Status:

Standing

Type:

Residential

Images Published In:

Catherine W. Bishir, North Carolina Architecture (1990).
Catherine W. Bishir and Michael T. Southern, A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Eastern North Carolina (1996).
Frances Benjamin Johnston and Thomas Tileston Waterman, The Early Architecture of North Carolina (1941).
C. Ford Peatross, William Nichols, Architect (1979).
John G. Zehmer, Jr., Hayes: The Plantation, Its People, and Their Papers (2007).

Note:

On Hayes’s construction, see Catherine W. Bishir, “‘Severe Survitude to House Building’: The Construction of Hayes Plantation House, 1814-1817,” North Carolina Historical Review, Vol. 68, No. 4 (Oct., 1991), reprinted in Catherine W. Bishir, Southern Built: American Architecture, Regional Practice (2006). For a history of the family and house, see John G. Zehmer, Hayes Plantation.