Benvenue

Benvenue is a historic Plantation house in the [Southern United States|plantation house] located near Rocky [Mount, North Carolina|Rocky Mount], Nash [County, North Carolina]. Originally built in 1844, the house was expanded and extensively remodeled to its present Second [Empire architecture|Second Empire] form in 1889. It is a large -story, three bay by three bay, frame dwelling with a one-story rear ell. It features a steep mansard roof with imbricated and floral patterned slate tiles. Also on the property are the contributing frame kitchen, dovetailed log rootcellar, frame dairyhouse, smokehouses, commissary, a restored greenhouse, spring house, and a one-room schoolhouse. It was the home of Congressman Benjamin H. Bunn.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.