- Source: Spring Bank (Lunenburg Courthouse, Virginia)
Spring Bank, also known as Ravenscroft and Magnolia Grove, is a historic plantation house located near Lunenburg, Lunenburg County, Virginia. It was built about 1793, and is a five-part Palladian plan frame dwelling in the Late Georgian style. It is composed of a two-story, three-bay center block flanked by one-story, one-bay, hipped roof wings with one-story, one-bay shed-roofed wings at the ends. Also on the property are the contributing smokehouse, a log slave quarter, and frame tobacco barn, and the remains of late-18th or early-19th century dependencies, including a kitchen/laundry, ice house, spring house, and a dam. Also located on the property are a family cemetery and two other burial grounds. It was built by John Stark Ravenscroft (1772–1830), who became the first Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina, serving from 1823 to 1830.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
References
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- Spring Bank (Lunenburg Courthouse, Virginia)
- Mecklenburg County, Virginia
- List of unincorporated communities in Virginia
- W. Lester Banks
- List of turnpikes in Virginia and West Virginia
- Virginia State Route 625
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Lunenburg County, Virginia
- Virginia State Route 626
- List of the oldest buildings in Virginia
- Virginia State Route 602
