{"nrhp_refnum":"01001187","name":"Montrose","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"320 St. Mary's Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hillsborough","county":"Orange County","state":"NC","lat":36.07807352800006,"lon":-79.14294241533818,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2001-10-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture","Landscape Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Montrose is a sixty-one acre estate on the eastern edge of Hillsborough, Orange County, North Carolina, along the Eno River. It comprises a main house with a c. 1900 core remodeled in 1948, a group of outbuildings, and historic gardens and landscape features.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that the estate is significant for its association with three generations of the Graham family, who were prominent in North Carolina politics from 1842 to 1977. It also cites the 1850s landscape work attributed to Thomas Paxton and the 1948 Colonial Revival remodeling by architect George Watts Carr as additional grounds for significance.","narrative":"Montrose is a sixty-one acre estate on the Eno River at the eastern edge of Hillsborough, a county seat in Orange County, North Carolina. Its grounds include a main house whose core was built about 1900 for John Washington Graham and remodeled in 1948 by Durham architect George Watts Carr in the Colonial Revival style, along with a law office used by Governor William Alexander Graham, a smokehouse believed to date from the 1820s and 1830s, a barn, and a kitchen. The property is significant for its long association with three generations of the Graham family, who held political office at the state and national level from 1842 to 1977. Its 1850s landscape, including a geometric kitchen garden attributed to landscape gardener Thomas Paxton, is among the few North Carolina gardens known to retain mid-nineteenth century features. The period of significance runs from 1842 to 1951.","period_of_significance":"1842-1951","architect_builder":"Paxton, Thomas (landscape gardener, 1852-1853); Carr, George Watts (architect, 1948 remodeling)","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival; Federal","criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"The property is described as having been restored by its current owners and continuing to be gardened and maintained.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.453232-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/84/7216/47721684/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/01001187.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01001187/54069451b4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01001187/54069451b4-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MONTROSE,_HILLSBOROUGH,_ORANGE_COUNTY,_NC.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerrye &amp;amp; Roy Klotz, MD</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:MONTROSE,_HILLSBOROUGH,_ORANGE_COUNTY,_NC.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721684","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montrose_(Hillsborough,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19987159"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/orange-county/montrose-01001187/"}