{"nrhp_refnum":"02001728","name":"Heartsfield-Perry Farm","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NC 2224, 0.1 mi. SE of NC 2300","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rolesville","county":"Wake County","state":"NC","lat":35.91553644000007,"lon":-78.39218394491127,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-01-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A rural farm complex of about 22 acres near Rolesville in northeastern Wake County, North Carolina, centered on a house begun in the 1790s and expanded and updated in the early 19th century and around 1840, with 14 contributing and 2 noncontributing resources.","why_significant":"The farm is tied to the Heartsfield family, whose patriarch Andrew Heartsfield was a landowner, mill builder and Methodist minister, and whose son Dr. Wesley Heartsfield ran a large plantation and medical practice. The house shows several building stages, from a one-room dwelling to a Greek Revival update. Its outbuildings, including one of the few surviving rural doctor's offices in Wake County, document farm life from the early 1800s through tobacco cultivation in the 20th century.","narrative":"Near Rolesville in northeastern Wake County, this 22-acre farm sits on a knoll among mature oaks and preserves the core of a much larger plantation once owned by the Heartsfield family. The house began in the 1790s as a one-room dwelling with a loft, was enlarged into a central-passage plan in the early nineteenth century, and was remodeled around 1840 with a low hip roof, cut granite chimneys, a two-tier Greek Revival porch and new doors and mantels. Andrew Heartsfield, a mill builder and Methodist minister, assembled the land. His son Dr. Wesley Heartsfield, a physician, expanded the plantation, and his c. 1840 office still stands. Surrounding the house are a detached kitchen, well, smokehouse, log mule barn, feed barn, privy, cemetery and tobacco-era barns. Together they show how the farm worked from the early nineteenth century through twentieth-century tobacco cultivation, and the property retains a high degree of integrity.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Early Republic/Federal; Mid-19th Century/Greek Revival; 19th Century dovetailed plank building","criteria":[],"status_note":"The form lists current functions of single dwelling and vacant. Outbuildings range from good to poor condition, the mule barn is in poor condition, and the family cemetery is overgrown.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:53.038443-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/5/7225/47722505/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/02001728.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722505","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartsfield%E2%80%93Perry_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5693090"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wake-county/heartsfield-perry-farm-02001728/"}