{"nrhp_refnum":"06000226","name":"Batts House and Outbuildings","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"E side of US 258 N, 2.05 mi. S of NC 1513 5098 US 258 N","address_restricted":false,"city":"Tarboro","county":"Edgecombe County","state":"NC","lat":35.94727265200004,"lon":-77.49813930199997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-04-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"The Dr. Dempsey Bryan Batts House and its associated outbuildings, a two-story frame Italianate farmhouse with a T-shaped plan built about 1880 on a rural parcel about seven miles north of Tarboro in Edgecombe County, North Carolina.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is one of the most intact late-nineteenth-century rural farmhouses in Edgecombe County and an excellent example of the Italianate style, with original interior finishes such as marbleized and grain-painted woodwork. It also argues that the early nineteenth-century plank outbuildings, built of twelve-inch cypress planks with full dovetail notching, are increasingly rare in eastern North Carolina.","narrative":"Built about 1880 for physician and justice of the peace Dr. Dempsey Bryan Batts, this two-story frame house sits on a rural parcel about seven miles north of Tarboro, facing west toward US Highway 258. It replaced an earlier Federal-era house destroyed by fire. The T-shaped plan has a wide central hall with a curving cantilevered staircase, a three-sided bay window, a wraparound porch with a sawn balustrade, and molded window crowns. Interior features include pine floors, twelve-foot ceilings, simple post-and-lintel mantels, and marbleized and wood-grain painting on doors, baseboards and mantels. The property also includes a one-story doctor's office and a small dairy from about 1880, and several outbuildings. Three early nineteenth-century plank buildings, a smokehouse, woodshed and corn barn, are built of horizontal cypress planks joined by dovetail notches, a method the nomination describes as increasingly rare in the region. The house is regarded as one of the county's most intact late-nineteenth-century farmhouses.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1810-1880","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"The outbuildings and house are described with some elements in fairly good condition and one dilapidated corn barn; the original metal roof has been replaced with composition shingle.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.521947-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/14/7201/47720114/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/06000226.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720114","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batts_House_and_Outbuildings","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19460402"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/edgecombe-county/batts-house-and-outbuildings-06000226/"}