{"nrhp_refnum":"06000339","name":"Rose Hill","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"W side of US 401 S, 0.25 mi. N of NC 1110","address_restricted":false,"city":"Louisburg","county":"Franklin County","state":"NC","lat":36.07098295600008,"lon":-78.33147206899997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-05-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Rose Hill (also called Timberlake House) is a two-story frame plantation house on the west side of US 401 south of Louisburg, Franklin County, North Carolina, begun about 1803 and enlarged in later phases, with a surviving group of outbuildings on a nine-acre tract.","why_significant":"The nomination argues Rose Hill is one of Franklin County's architecturally significant early nineteenth-century plantation houses. Its transitional Georgian-Federal main block was altered about 1840, 1880 and 1910, with each phase reflecting changing tastes. It retains a high degree of integrity and a set of outbuildings showing nearly two centuries of occupancy.","narrative":"Rose Hill is a large two-story frame house on US 401 just south of Louisburg in Franklin County, North Carolina. Lark Fox built the original five-bay main block about 1803 as the center of a plantation that grew to more than 1,300 acres. Its Flemish bond brick chimneys and molded woodwork reflect a transition between Georgian and Federal styles. Later owners reshaped the house in stages: a rear ell expansion about 1840, a Queen Anne-style wraparound verandah about 1880, and a Neoclassical portico, balcony and new staircase about 1910. The Yarborough family owned the property from 1830 to 1877, and the Timberlake family then lived and farmed there into the late twentieth century. Outbuildings include a kitchen and slave quarter from about 1840, plus a playhouse and generator house from about 1910. The house was listed for its architecture, since its layered construction phases show changing styles and domestic life across more than a century. A 2005 tree fall damaged the porch, which is being rebuilt.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1803-ca. 1910","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Transitional Georgian-Federal; Queen Anne; Colonial Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Structurally sound but cosmetically deteriorated; the front porch was largely destroyed by a fallen tree in 2005 and is being reconstructed, and the current owners are restoring the house and outbuildings.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:54.354551-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/32/7203/47720332/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/06000339.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720332","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Hill_(Louisburg,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18711645"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/franklin-county/rose-hill-06000339/"}