{"nrhp_refnum":"12000572","name":"Blanchard, Joshua James, House","other_names":["Blanchard, William A., House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"415 Carrolls Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Warsaw","county":"Duplin County","state":"NC","lat":34.97515031900008,"lon":-78.15069378699997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2012-08-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame house built c. 1898 in the rural Baltic community of Duplin County, North Carolina, about five miles southwest of Warsaw, on 5.31 acres of a farm tract the Blanchard family acquired in 1795.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house meets Criterion C for architecture as an example of design and craftsmanship in rural Duplin County in the late nineteenth century. Although built late, it carries Greek Revival features such as a symmetrical facade, sidelit entries and columned porches. It is described as one of the few intact rural examples of this late use of the style and the only known two-story example in the western part of the county.","narrative":"Set among wheat, corn and soybean fields in the Baltic community southwest of Warsaw, this two-story frame house was built around 1898. Family tradition holds that it was a wedding gift to Joshua James Blanchard and his wife, Sallie Ward, from her father, Senator William Robinson Ward. It has a hipped metal roof, a wraparound one-story porch, a small second-floor porch over the entrance, and a kitchen wing at the rear. Inside, four sixteen-foot rooms flank a center hall, with period mantels, molded trim and pine floors. Although built late in the century, the house follows the symmetrical form and classical detailing of earlier Greek Revival plantation houses. It is described as one of the few intact rural examples of that continued use and the only known two-story one in western Duplin County. The land stayed in Blanchard family hands from 1795 until a 1933 mortgage default, and the house was restored in 2008-2009.","period_of_significance":"c. 1898","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Restored in 2008-2009 and still used as a single dwelling; a 2009 barn on the property is noncontributing.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:53.756666-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/79/7176/47717679/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/12000572.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12000572/99f0a4039c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12000572/99f0a4039c-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Mx._Granger","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joshua_James_Blanchard_House_in_Warsaw,_NC.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Mx._Granger</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joshua_James_Blanchard_House_in_Warsaw,_NC.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717679","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_James_Blanchard_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18385878"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/duplin-county/blanchard-joshua-james-house-12000572/"}