{"nrhp_refnum":"04001391","name":"Mallard, John Wesley, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NC 1301, 0.25 mi. S of NC 1329","address_restricted":false,"city":"Faison","county":"Duplin County","state":"NC","lat":35.121782266000025,"lon":-79.24586673099998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-12-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, I-house style frame residence built about 1886 on the west side of SR 1301 (Warren Road) near Faison in western Duplin County, North Carolina, built for farmer John Wesley Mallard.","why_significant":"The house is argued to be a locally important, intact example of combined Greek Revival and Italianate styles from the post-Civil War period in Duplin County. It is a simple Greek Revival form with Italianate brackets, built a decade after other regions turned to Queen Anne and later Victorian designs. It has good exterior and interior integrity and meets the county's registration requirements for houses built between the Civil War and 1943.","narrative":"Built around 1886 for farmer John Wesley Mallard, this two-story frame house sits among cotton fields near Faison in western Duplin County. It has a three-bay, center-hall I-house form with weatherboard siding, six-over-six windows, twin end chimneys and a front porch on square posts. The basic design is simple Greek Revival, with Italianate brackets under the porch and main-block eaves. Inside, pilastered Greek Revival mantels, four-panel doors, beaded board ceilings and a straight-run stair survive. Mallard bought 52 acres in 1886 and also ran a sawmill, crate factory, grist mill and cotton gin on a two-acre mill site. The house was listed for architecture because it is a locally important, intact example of Greek Revival and Italianate styles blended in the years after the Civil War, appearing a decade after fashions elsewhere had shifted to Queen Anne and other Victorian designs. Its closest relative is the ca. 1876 William E. Faison House just across the county line in Sampson County.","period_of_significance":"Ca. 1886","architect_builder":"unknown","architectural_style":"Greek Revival; Italianate","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still used as a single dwelling with agricultural outbuildings; the front porch has been screened and the rear wing interior remodeled, but the house otherwise stands much as built.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:54.743732-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/85/7176/47717685/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/04001391.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04001391/a17623be49-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04001391/a17623be49-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Wesley_Mallard_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Wesley_Mallard_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717685","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wesley_Mallard_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18385568"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/duplin-county/mallard-john-wesley-house-04001391/"}