{"nrhp_refnum":"01000047","name":"Garrett's Island House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1445 Garrett's Island Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Plymouth","county":"Washington County","state":"NC","lat":35.84889111100006,"lon":-76.69678802999994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2001-02-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-and-one-half-story frame gambrel-roof plantation house about two miles southeast of Plymouth in Washington County, North Carolina, at 1445 Garrett's Island Road. It is thought to date from circa 1760 and was likely built by John Garrett after his 1760 marriage.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is thought to be the oldest extant dwelling in Washington County and a rare surviving example of a late Colonial gambrel-roof, hall-parlor plan planter house in eastern North Carolina. Its interior, particularly the second-floor chambers, is described as largely unaltered eighteenth-century work, and its later Federal and Greek Revival changes are presented as adaptations that did not diminish the earlier form.","narrative":"Built around 1760 as a plantation house in Washington County, near Plymouth in eastern North Carolina, Garrett's Island House is a one-and-one-half-story frame building with a gambrel roof and hall-parlor plan. Daniel Garrett acquired the land after a 1747 deed, and his son John, who married Sarah Carkeet in April 1760, most likely built the house as a sign of his success as a planter. The family grew rice, flax, and corn, and the house stayed in the Garrett line for seven generations. Its upstairs chambers retain eighteenth-century partition walls, pegboards, four-panel Georgian doors, original hinges and latches, and wide pine flooring. Federal mantels, Greek Revival wainscoting, and windows were added in the nineteenth century. The house is regarded as the oldest surviving dwelling in Washington County and one of few intact examples of its form in the region, and it has never been moved.","period_of_significance":"Circa 1760","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Georgian; Federal; Greek Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Being restored by family descendants; a later tin roof has been replaced with wood shingles and some mid-twentieth-century drywall removed.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.243523-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/50/7227/47722750/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/01000047.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722750","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrett%27s_Island_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20708882"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/washington-county/garretts-island-house-01000047/"}