The Italianate style house was built in 1854 for Joseph John Garrett.

Adelphia Plantation was built in 1854 in Edgecombe County, North Carolina for Dr. Joseph John Garrett, a local physician.

[1] It was built in the Italianate style and some of the designs used for ornamentation may have come from William Ranlett's 1847 pattern book The Architect.

[1] John Lawrance Wiggins, a local magistrate,[7] owned the house until his death in 1897, when it passed to his heirs.

[8] In August 2011, winds from Hurricane Irene caused an 125-year-old oak tree to fall on the grounds of Adelphia.