{"nrhp_refnum":"02000943","name":"Leak-Chaffin-Browder House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NC 8, 0.1 mi. S of jct. with NC 1941","address_restricted":false,"city":"Germantown","county":"Stokes County","state":"NC","lat":36.27593873100005,"lon":-80.22039704799994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-09-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick Greek Revival house with a Colonial Revival wraparound porch, set on a 3.04-acre rural tract east of NC 8 just north of Germanton in Stokes County, North Carolina. It is accompanied by a brick kitchen-slave/servants' house and several outbuildings.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is one of the most fully developed and well preserved of the few Greek Revival plantation houses surviving in Stokes County, and a rare example of brick domestic construction in the county at that time. Its interior center and side stair halls and consistent Greek Revival detailing, including a basement dining room reached by the side stair, are described as unusual. The brick kitchen-slave/servants' house is cited as a rare mid-nineteenth-century survivor.","narrative":"Built of brick between 1853 and about 1860 near Germanton in Stokes County, the two-story house was begun by tobacconist David R. Leak on land purchased from his father-in-law, Solomon Petree. It has a three-bay facade, a hipped roof with boxed eaves, and a center-hall and side-hall interior with Greek Revival stairs, two-panel doors, post-and-lintel mantels, and built-in cupboards. A basement dining room is reached by the side stair, a feature described as unusual in the county. In 1905 William David Browder bought the property, and in the early twentieth century his family replaced the original entrance porches with a wraparound Colonial Revival porch. The brick kitchen-slave/servants' house behind the main house dates from the mid-nineteenth century and is one of the few such buildings surviving in the county. Together with the house, these buildings show how a substantial rural farmstead of the period was organized, and they are the reasons the property is listed.","period_of_significance":"1853-1st quarter 20th century","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival; Colonial Revival porch","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Occupied for continued family use; being rehabilitated by the present owners","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.068512-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/74/7222/47722274/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/02000943.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722274","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leak-Chaffin-Browder_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19946032"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/stokes-county/leak-chaffin-browder-house-02000943/"}