Drax Hall Plantation House, Barbados, 1972

Drax Hall plantation house; front entrance is on the left. Drax Hall house was built of locally obtained coral blocks in the 1650s and is one of the oldest standing plantation houses in Barbados. It is one of three Jacobean-style English manor houses in what was once British America (the others are Nicholas Abbey in Barbados and Bacon's Castle, Williamsburg, Virginia).

Image Title

Drax Hall Plantation House, Barbados, 1972

RegID

SI-OB-500

Date

1972

Title

Drax Hall Plantation House, Barbados, 1972

Source

Slide, Handler, personal collection

Language

English

Item sets

Plantation Scenes, Slave Settlements & Houses

Spatial Coverage

Caribbean--Barbados

Researchers

Handler, Jerome; Tuite, Michael; Randall Ericson; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May

Identifier

NW0084