{"nrhp_refnum":"02001710","name":"Elmwood","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"637 Avoca Farm Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Merry Hill","county":"Bertie County","state":"NC","lat":36.00208864800004,"lon":-76.72602860999996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-01-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Elmwood is a two-story, seven-bay plantation house on the south bank of Salmon Creek in Merry Hill Township, Bertie County, North Carolina, reached by an unpaved lane about one-quarter mile from Avoca Farm Road. It was built in phases beginning about 1786-1787 for planter and mariner Christopher Clark, and enlarged about 1810.","why_significant":"The nomination argues Elmwood is a significant regional example of the large plantation house, combining Georgian, Federal and Greek Revival elements at a large scale. Its three building periods show changing architectural fashion alongside an expanding plantation economy. The house also has notable interior woodwork from each period, and its ownership chain links it to prominent Bertie County planters.","narrative":"Elmwood is a two-story plantation house of seven bays on the south bank of Salmon Creek in Bertie County, North Carolina. Christopher Clark, a planter and mariner, had the original five-bay hall-and-parlor house built about 1786 to 1787 on land he acquired from confiscated Loyalist holdings. Around 1810, Stark Armistead enlarged it with a block of rooms on the east, converting the original parlor into a wide central passage and reconfiguring the stair. The interior holds notable Georgian woodwork in the original hall room, Federal woodwork in the eastern parlor, and Greek Revival surrounds and a trabeated entrance added in the 1830s or 1840s by William T. Sutton, one of the largest landowners and slaveholders in antebellum Bertie County. The house is considered a significant regional example of a large planter's residence, showing three stylistic periods in one building.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1787 to 1840s","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Georgian; Federal; Greek Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.696503-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/45/7190/47719045/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/02001710.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719045","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmwood_(Merry_Hill,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18149854"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/bertie-county/elmwood-02001710/"}