Westbrook-Hubert Farm

Westbrook-Hubert Farm is a 54-acre farm near Meriwether in Baldwin County, Georgia, built around a one-story Folk Victorian house dating to about 1890. Behind the house sit a doctor's office, cook's house, carriage house, barn, chicken houses, privy and two wells, while a farm manager's house and tenant house stand nearer the fields. The land was once part of a much larger holding of 1,050 acres. Richard Nixon Westbrook bought it in 1888, and he and his heirs built the main house and most surviving outbuildings. Cotton was the principal crop. In 1910 Dr. Terrell E. Hubert bought the southern half, leased land to tenants and practiced medicine from an office on the property until 1945. Few Georgia farms of the period keep more than five outbuildings, yet this one preserves many, because farming continued until mid-century. The house also shows applied Eastlake porch details on a traditional form, and it kept a high level of integrity, with its few alterations made before 1946.