{"nrhp_refnum":"71000569","name":"Jordan House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"S of Windsor on SR 1522","address_restricted":false,"city":"Windsor","county":"Bertie County","state":"NC","lat":35.89126366200003,"lon":-76.95661991699995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1971-08-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story Flemish-bond brick house with a gable roof on SR 1522 near Windsor, Bertie County, North Carolina, apparently built shortly before May 6, 1738.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is architecturally probably unique in North Carolina for its style and period. It is noted for its T-stack chimneys and fine brickwork, and it recalls several seventeenth-century Virginia houses unlike any other early brick house known in the state.","narrative":"Near Windsor in Bertie County, this one-story brick house with a gable roof was apparently built shortly before May 6, 1738, when William Charlton sold Joseph Jordan 300 acres along with the plank and brick prepared for the dwelling. The walls are laid in Flemish bond with glazed headers above a high water table, and two interior T-stack end chimneys are especially notable. The house follows a so-called Quaker plan, with a large parlor and two smaller rooms to the west. Its front was originally the rear, and the orientation was reversed when roads replaced the Roanoke River as the main route. A 1928 fire destroyed the interiors, but the brick partitions and parlor fireplace survive, and the basement has English-bond walls with semicircular fireplace arches. The nomination considers the house probably unique in North Carolina for its style and period, resembling several seventeenth-century Virginia houses. The Jordan family held it for generations.","period_of_significance":"18th Century (1738)","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Quaker plan; brick house with T-stack chimneys, reminiscent of seventeenth-century Virginia houses","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as excellent and altered; in use as a private residence. Interiors were destroyed by a 1928 fire, though original interior brick partitions and the parlor fireplace remain.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:58.332274-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/59/7190/47719059/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/71000569.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719059","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_House_(Windsor,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18152789"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/bertie-county/jordan-house-71000569/"}