{"nrhp_refnum":"07000884","name":"Thomas, Dr. Roscius P. and Mary Mitchell, House and Outbuildings","other_names":["Thomas, Ruth, Home Farm"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"734 Thomas Bridge Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Bethlehem","county":"Hertford County","state":"NC","lat":36.30970028150006,"lon":-76.89050163131537,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2007-08-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A farm complex in eastern Hertford County near Bethlehem, North Carolina, with an 1887 two-story frame house, three ca. 1855 outbuildings (doctor's office, smokehouse, root house) and three later outbuildings, on a historic boundary of about twenty-five acres.","why_significant":"The nomination argues local significance for architecture. The house is a well-preserved example of late nineteenth-century millwork-rich design in the Italianate style with Gothic Revival influences, in keeping with houses in nearby Union and Murfreesboro. The ca. 1855 doctor's office, smokehouse and root house are rare surviving antebellum outbuildings.","narrative":"This farm complex in eastern Hertford County, North Carolina, north of Bethlehem, centers on a two-story frame house built in 1887 for Dr. Roscius P. Thomas and his wife Mary Mitchell Thomas. The house combines Italianate and late Gothic Revival touches: ornate brackets, a round window in the front gable, a jigsaw-trimmed porch, two-story bay windows on the gable ends and decorated cornerboards. A ca. 1855 kitchen from an earlier family house was attached to the rear. Three outbuildings from about 1855 also survive: a two-room doctor's office with a pedimented gable and apothecary shelves, a heavy-timber smokehouse, and an insulated root house. Three early twentieth-century outbuildings are also on the property. The ensemble is considered locally significant for its architecture. The house reflects the elaborate millwork tradition found in nearby Union and Murfreesboro, while the antebellum outbuildings represent once-common building types that rarely survive.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1855, 1887","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian; Mid 19th Century: Greek Revival; vernacular mid-19th century domestic outbuildings","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Current function is still a single dwelling with secondary and agricultural outbuildings; the house has a ca. 2000 rear addition and a sun room, and the smokehouse and doctor's office had some repairs around 2000.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:52.645387-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/51/7208/47720851/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/07000884.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720851","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Roscius_P._and_Mary_Mitchell_Thomas_House_and_Outbuildings","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24436239"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/hertford-county/thomas-dr-roscius-p-and-mary-mitchell-house-and-outbuildings-07000884/"}