{"nrhp_refnum":"07000932","name":"Davenport House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"VA 1143 (Mount Tabor Rd. and VA 1146 (Mount Tabor Road-Backwoods","address_restricted":false,"city":"Creswell","county":"Washington County","state":"NC","lat":35.86776150500003,"lon":-76.44976054099999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2007-09-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"The Davenport House is a one-and-a-half story, heavy timber frame coastal cottage on a 1.02-acre tract in the rural community of Mount Tabor, about one-half mile west of Creswell in Washington County, North Carolina. It is owned and operated as a house museum by the Historical Society of Washington County.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a distinct and rare survivor of the early nineteenth-century one-room house with rear shed room and engaged porch, a form known in North Carolina as a coastal cottage. It is said to retain its intact floor plan, roof form, interior dividing wall, front and rear doors, and wood block foundation, with exposed joists and studs that are unusual for the type. Its significance is rated local.","narrative":"Built around 1815 as a one-and-a-half story, heavy timber frame house with a rear shed room and an engaged porch under a broken-pitch roof, the Davenport House near Creswell is a coastal cottage, a house type common in eastern North Carolina. Its frame is joined with mortise, tenon and pins, and it rests on trapezoidal cypress blocks. The main room and shed room retain exposed joists and studs and original wood floors, with a single fireplace in the main room. The house was occupied by the Davenport family for well over a century, and Harriet Ann Davenport was its last resident, dying in 1975. After a restoration completed in 1999, it became a museum. It is regarded as a rare survivor of a house type that was once common in Washington County, where three similar houses stood within a mile but have since been demolished. The house is valued for its largely unaltered plan, roof form and interior, which show how modest rural households were built in the early nineteenth century.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1815","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Coastal cottage (one-room house with rear shed room and engaged porch)","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Restored between 1995 and 1999 by the Historical Society of Washington County and opened to the public as a museum.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.404356-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/48/7227/47722748/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/07000932.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07000932/9b39cd24b4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07000932/9b39cd24b4-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"North Carolina ECHO","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Davenport_House_Creswell,_North_Carolina.png\" rel=\"noopener\">North Carolina ECHO</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Davenport_House_Creswell,_North_Carolina.png"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722748","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davenport_House_(Creswell,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20709299"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/washington-county/davenport-house-07000932/"}