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Shell Castle
Portrait of a North Carolina House
Elizabeth Matheson
Afterword by Catherine W. Bishir

Safe Harbor Books
978-0-9798226-0-5
$75.00 hardcover
10 ½ x 11
72 pages
Published in 2008
Gift & Holiday, History, North Carolina, Photography & Art

I never photograph anything I don't think is beautiful. Shell Castle is the most soulfully beautiful place I've ever seen.
—Elizabeth Matheson

Shell Castle, a late eighteenth-century plantation house in Halifax County, North Carolina, remained in the same family for two centuries. This book documents the plantation during the last days of Charles Whitaker, the last member of the family who built Shell Castle. Additional photographs show the harm done by the new owners. The text and photographs are complemented by Catherine Bishir's essay, which places Shell Castle and its inhabitants in social and historical context.

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Also by Elizabeth Matheson:
Quartet: Four North Carolina Photographers