{"nrhp_refnum":"06000687","name":"Morrow, William P., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NC 2146, 0.1 mi. W of jct. with NC 2145 (3017 Saxapahaw-Bethlehem Church Rd.)","address_restricted":false,"city":"Graham","county":"Alamance County","state":"NC","lat":35.95391826350004,"lon":-79.27852218988022,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-08-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick Greek Revival house with a center-hall plan, stucco scored to resemble stone, on a nearly fourteen-acre tract in the rural southeastern part of Alamance County, North Carolina, near Graham. It was built about 1855 for William Parks Morrow, a farmer and tobacco planter.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is an important member of a small group of mid-nineteenth-century Greek Revival houses in Alamance County and is particularly distinctive because it is the only brick example of the group and the only known brick house in the county coated in scored stucco. Its interior is described as an excellent and largely intact example of chaste Greek Revival detailing, including an unusual parallel enclosed stair.","narrative":"Built about 1855 as a two-story brick farmhouse in the southeastern part of Alamance County, North Carolina, the Morrow House is a symmetrical three-bay Greek Revival dwelling with a low hipped roof and gable-end chimneys. Its brick walls are coated in stucco scored to resemble stone, a treatment regarded as highly sophisticated for the county at the time and the only known example of its kind there. The house was built for William Parks Morrow, a farmer and tobacco planter who in 1860 was among the wealthiest men in the county. Although the front porch has been lost, the house is valued for its interior, which retains two-panel doors, paneled surrounds with corner blocks, post-and-lintel mantels in each of the four original rooms, and an open-string center-hall stair. A parallel enclosed stair from the dining room to the second floor is an unusual feature. The house is listed for its architecture as a member of a small group of rural and town Greek Revival houses built in the 1850s.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1855","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Front porch lost before 1978; a one-and-a-half-story rear ell was added in 1984-1985 and the property is described as continuing to be preserved by its present owners.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.658747-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/36/7188/47718836/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/06000687.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000687/456d19f23f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000687/456d19f23f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"MarkMorrow20","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:01-1855-William-Parks-MorrowHome-Front-OrangeCo-NC.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">MarkMorrow20</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:01-1855-William-Parks-MorrowHome-Front-OrangeCo-NC.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718836","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_P._Morrow_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17560886"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/alamance-county/morrow-william-p-house-06000687/"}