Estate Butler's Bay
National Register of Historic Places

Estate Butler's Bay

Frederiksted, St. Croix County, U.S. Virgin Islands
Listed
August 24, 1978
Type
Building
Period
Colonial
Ref No.
78002722

About this property

Estate Butler's Bay, on the island of Saint Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands, was established as a sugar plantation by 1764. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The listing included five contributing buildings, a contributing structure, and five contributing sites. It is located on the west coast of the island, about 2.1 miles (3.4 km) north of Frederiksted. It has also been known as Bottler's Bay. Surviving are "two great houses, three slave quarter buildings, a cookhouse, a sugar factory, stables, an overseer's house and a number of accessory structures." A wind-powered mill to crush sugar cane has been modified and incorporated into a modern house, and is not part of the listing. More than 80 slaves worked on the plantation. The earliest of the two great houses is a two-story building, 56 by 63 feet (17 m × 19 m) in plan, with six bays by seven bays. It has a corrugated tin hipped roof which replaced the similar roof lost in an 1828 hurricane. Media related to Estate Butler's Bay at Wikimedia Commons

Location

Frederiksted, St. Croix County, U.S. Virgin Islands
17.74666, -64.89240

Categories

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Sources

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When was Estate Butler's Bay listed on the National Register?

Estate Butler's Bay was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 24, 1978.

What type of historic resource is Estate Butler's Bay?

Estate Butler's Bay is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.

What is the period of significance for Estate Butler's Bay?

The period of significance for Estate Butler's Bay is recorded as the colonial era, specifically around 1764.

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