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