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Estate Butler's Bay

United States historic place


Estate Butler's Bay
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Watercolour of Butler's Bay by Frederik von Scholten, 1830
17°44′57″N 64°53′32″W / 17.74917°N 64.89222°W / 17.74917; -64.89222
Area	13.6 acres (5.5 ha)
Built	1764
NRHP reference No.	78002722^[1]
Added to NRHP	August 25, 1978

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.^[1]

Background

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.^[2]

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.^[2]

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.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
^ ^a ^b ^c Philip Lader; Russell Wright (June 6, 1977). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Estate Butler's Bay / Bottler's Bay". National Park Service. Retrieved July 22, 2019. With accompanying two photos from 1977