{"nrhp_refnum":"02000165","name":"Penny, Jesse, House and Outbuildings","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NC 1379, 1 mi. SW of NC 1371","address_restricted":false,"city":"Raleigh","county":"Wake County","state":"NC","lat":35.71142241200005,"lon":-78.70137903699998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-03-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"The Jesse Penny House and Outbuildings is a farm complex on five and a half acres on the south side of Penny Road in Swift Creek Township, south central Wake County, North Carolina. The two-story triple-A farmhouse was built around 1900 by Jesse Wood Penny and is surrounded by barns, a well house, a chicken house, a cottage and a picket fence.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the complex is a remarkably intact example of turn-of-the-twentieth-century vernacular farm buildings in rural Wake County. Its interior tongue-and-groove sheathing and sunburst ceiling motif in the east parlor are singled out, along with the picket fence, which is described as one of the oldest such structures remaining in the county. The house is also tied to the local carpenter Peter Dupree, whose journals survive.","narrative":"Built around 1900 on a farm in Swift Creek Township, the two-story triple-A farmhouse was erected by Jesse Wood Penny onto the front of an earlier one-story house. Local carpenter Peter Dupree is recorded as its builder, and his journals from 1890 to 1902 survive. The main house has a central-passage plan and an east parlor with dark-stained tongue-and-groove walls and a geometric ceiling. The complex includes a ca. 1900 picket fence, two barns, a well house, a chicken house and a converted barn cottage. The farm was worked for corn, cotton and tobacco, and Penny also ran a lumber business. The complex is regarded as an unusually complete surviving example of a rural Wake County farmstead from this period, and its interior finish and fence are the features that mark it out.","period_of_significance":"1900","architect_builder":"Peter Dupree (builder)","architectural_style":"Triple-A I-house","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"The house was sided in vinyl between 1990 and 1994 and the owners plan to remove it; the cottage was converted to a residence and later sided in vinyl.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.728332-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/91/7224/47722491/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/02000165.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000165/da858058c6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000165/da858058c6-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jack Penny","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jesse_Penny_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jack Penny</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:Jesse_Penny_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722491","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Penny_House_and_Outbuildings","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20745480"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wake-county/penny-jesse-house-and-outbuildings-02000165/"}