Belvidere Plantation House, also known as the Merrick-Nixon House, is a historic plantation house located near Hampstead, Pender County, North Carolina, US. It was built about 1810 for slaveholder George Merrick, and is a 1+1⁄2-story, three-bay, gambrel-roofed dwelling with Georgian, Federal, and Greek Revival style design elements. It is sheathed in weatherboard and has exterior end chimneys and a shed-roofed front porch.[2]
It was purposely burned to the ground on December 31, 2006, or January 1, 2007, by the developer of a waterfront community on Sloop Point Road in Hampstead. Instead of working
with the Pender County Historical Society to see if Belvedere Plantation house could be saved by moving it to another location as had been requested, the home was instead turned over by the owners of the Virginia Bay property to the Sloop Point Volunteer Fire Department to burn down. The importance of the home to the community was probably unknown to the volunteer fire department.
^Renee Gledhill-Earley and Walter D. Best (April 1981). "Belvidere Plantation House"(PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-02-01.
