{"nrhp_refnum":"05001030","name":"Thompson House","other_names":["William Thompson House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2528 Old NC 98","address_restricted":false,"city":"Wake Forest","county":"Wake County","state":"NC","lat":35.969669719000024,"lon":-78.56861635299998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-09-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, three-bay, center-hall double-pile Greek Revival house in unincorporated Wake County just west of Wake Forest, North Carolina, built about 1853 and moved about 500 yards in April 2004 to a site on land historically associated with the Thompson family.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is one of the most intact Greek Revival style houses in Wake County and exemplifies the standard local interpretation of the style, including its hip roof, corner-blocked surrounds, and six-over-six sash windows. It also argues the house retains integrity of design, materials, workmanship, feeling and association despite being moved, and it is linked to the Thompson family and the Forest Hill Academy.","narrative":"Built about 1853 west of Wake Forest in Wake County, North Carolina, the Thompson House is a two-story, center-hall, double-pile dwelling of weatherboard over circular sawn lumber, with a hipped roof and front and rear one-story porches. It is regarded as one of the most intact Greek Revival houses in the county. Its interior retains hand-planed ceiling planks, pine floors, fluted trim in the front rooms, and soapstone fireboxes on the first floor, and an enclosed winder staircase is unusual for the county's mid-nineteenth-century houses. The house is associated with the Thompson family, including George Warren Thompson, who helped found the Wake Forest Institute, and William Marcellus Thompson, a Confederate captain killed at Gaines' Mill in 1862. Threatened by church expansion, the house was moved in 2004 to a nearby site on family land, where its chimneys, foundation stone and barn were relocated with it.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1853","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Moved in April 2004 from its original location to save it from demolition; restored and reconstructed on a new site.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.440324-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/65/7224/47722465/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/05001030.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722465","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thompson_House_(Wake_Forest,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23073403"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wake-county/thompson-house-05001030/"}