Pembroke Hall Up For Auction

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
Dec 27th 2008 at 8:03AM

Another historic home is up for auction. Pembroke Hall in Edenton, North Carolina was built in 1850 and is one the National Register of Historic Places. The home has 17 rooms, eight Italian marble fireplaces and a wine cellar. It is located on a two acre plot overlooking Pembroke Creek and Edenton Bay. The Greek Revival home has Corinthian and Doric columns with two-story porticos, murals and a hand painted antique wallcovering from China. The property has a current tax value of $2,002,030 was previously priced at $2.9 million but has been priced as low as $1.4 million. Recently, according to an article in The Virginian-Pilot, another historic 1850 house across the street from Pembroke Hall sold for $1.6 million. The opening bid in the online auction is $100,000 and the auction ends on January 9.

Gallery: Pembroke Hall