{"nrhp_refnum":"00001186","name":"Skinner, Dr. Charles and Susan, House and Outbuildings","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NC 1528, 0.25 mi. SW of NC 158","address_restricted":false,"city":"Littleton","county":"Warren County","state":"NC","lat":36.42705407300008,"lon":-77.93747495399998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-10-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Greek Revival plantation house with a kitchen, dairy, smokehouse, necessary, two flanking dependencies and a later garage, on a rise near Littleton, Warren County, North Carolina. The house was built between 1840 and 1844 for Dr. Charles and Susan Skinner.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house and its 1840s outbuildings are a rare surviving antebellum Greek Revival plantation complex with its original floor plan and exterior and interior detail intact. The buildings are attributed to regional builder/architects Albert G. Jones and Thomas Bragg, Sr. The complex is presented as an important example of Greek Revival architecture in Warren County.","narrative":"Dr. Charles and Susan Skinner built this two-story Greek Revival plantation house near Littleton between 1840 and 1844, on land from Susan's family, the Littles. Its T-shaped plan has a three-bay, single-pile main block and two hemi-octagonal wings. It keeps its original weatherboarding, fluted corner posts, window sash, mantels, woodwork and central-passage floor plan with a transverse stair hall behind a keystone arch. Around the house stand a kitchen, dairy, smokehouse, necessary and two small dependencies, all from the 1840s and sharing the house's classical trim. Letters from Dr. Skinner describe hiring Albert G. Jones for the outbuildings and working with Thomas Bragg, Sr., whose crews raised the house. The couple moved in a week before Christmas in 1844. The complex is recognized as an intact example of the monumental houses that wealthy rural planters built across North Carolina before the Civil War, and it remains in the Skinner family.","period_of_significance":"1840-1844","architect_builder":"Bragg, Thomas; Jones, Albert G.","architectural_style":"Mid-19th Century/Greek Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Current use listed as domestic single dwelling and secondary structures; the house and land remain in the Skinner family and the surrounding land is still farmed.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:52.777951-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/8/7227/47722708/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/00001186.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722708","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Charles_and_Susan_Skinner_House_and_Outbuildings","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24436307"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/warren-county/skinner-dr-charles-and-susan-house-and-outbuildings-00001186/"}