{"nrhp_refnum":"01000015","name":"Watson-Sanders House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2810 Brogden Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Smithfield","county":"Johnston County","state":"NC","lat":35.46877711150006,"lon":-78.32585869585039,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2001-01-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame I-house with a double engaged front piazza, built around 1820 and moved about 1854, on Brogden Road about three miles southeast of Smithfield, Johnston County, North Carolina. Three early 20th-century outbuildings stand beside it.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is one of a small number of surviving antebellum plantation houses in Johnston County, and of an even smaller number with an engaged double piazza. It keeps transitional Georgian-Federal detailing from about 1820 and Greek Revival remodeling from about 1854. The house was moved a short distance within its plantation, which is addressed under Criteria Consideration B.","narrative":"Three miles southeast of Smithfield in Johnston County, this two-story, three-bay I-house was built around 1820 and still has pit-sawn lumber, T-head nails and Georgian-style raised-panel doors. It first stood near the Neuse River on a plantation owned by Dr. Josiah O. Watson and served as an overseer's dwelling. About 1854 his nephew, Marine Corps officer Henry Bulls Watson, had it moved three-quarters of a mile north to the River Road. The family remodeled the interior in Greek Revival style, changed the plan to a center hall, and added a two-story front piazza and a bedroom wing. It remained a home for five generations of the Watson and Sanders families. Three early twentieth-century outbuildings survive: a former store and garage, a fertilizer house and a brooder house. The house is notable locally as one of few surviving antebellum plantation houses in the county, and among those, one of very few with an engaged double piazza.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1820; ca. 1854","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Other: vernacular (transitional Georgian-Federal with Greek Revival remodeling)","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still used as a single dwelling, with agricultural storage in the outbuildings.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:54.404581-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/68/7209/47720968/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/01000015.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000015/a0d30b5bd0-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000015/a0d30b5bd0-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"LikeGrantTookRichmond","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Watson-Sanders_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">LikeGrantTookRichmond</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Watson-Sanders_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720968","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watson-Sanders_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23041571"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/johnston-county/watson-sanders-house-01000015/"}