Double porches. Above all, Tim and Donna Carroll wanted expansive double porches like those gracing many Southern plantation-style homes for the house they planned to build on 17 acres in Versailles.

My last three houses have been historic: a 130-year-old farmhouse, a 100-year-old southern plantation style home and currently an 85-year-old Spanish Mediterranean.

My last three houses have been historic: a 130-year-old Folk Farmhouse, a 100-year-old Southern Plantation-style home, and currently, an 85-year-old Spanish Mediterranean.

K E N A N S V I L L E, N.C., Oct. 27 -- North Carolina's plantation homes are agood illustration of what provoked an old joke that the state is avalley of humility between two mountains of conceit ...

Neil Ingram has stepped back in time, buying an old Southern plantation house that he owned and lived in 30 years ago. Home again Skip to main content Skip to main content ...

There is a marriage of sorts taking place at the New Southern Home 1990, a showcase house that opens to the public Monday. Like a May-December romance, this is a marriage of old, Southern plantatio… ...

At one time, there were nearly one hundred plantation homes built along or near the Cape Fear River, but neglect and mother nature has reduced that number to only a handful that are still standing ...