{"nrhp_refnum":"71000581","name":"Coolmore Plantation","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Rte. 3 (W of Tarboro on U.S. 64)","address_restricted":false,"city":"Tarboro","county":"Edgecombe County","state":"NC","lat":35.924039008500046,"lon":-77.59414484833032,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1971-02-18","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1978-06-16","areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Coolmore Plantation is a two-story frame Italian Villa style mansion with small one-story wings, begun in 1859 on a plantation west of Tarboro in Edgecombe County, North Carolina. It was designed by E. G. Lind of Baltimore.","why_significant":"The nomination calls Coolmore one of the largest, finest and best documented plantation houses of its style and period in North Carolina. The house remains almost unaltered with its outbuildings complete, and the original construction bills, invoices and architect's drawing survive.","narrative":"Coolmore Plantation, west of Tarboro in Edgecombe County, centers on a two-story frame mansion begun in 1859 for Dr. Joseph J. W. Powell, a prominent local physician. Baltimore architect E. G. Lind designed it in the Italian Villa style, with a hip roof, decorative gables, elaborate brackets and a belvedere with stained glass windows. Inside are an apsidal entrance hall, an elliptical stair lit by the belvedere, and parlors with painted ceilings and walls, marble mantels and original furnishings. Original servants' quarters, a gas house, smoke house, carriage house and other outbuildings survive, several topped with cupolas. The house was finished shortly before Powell died in 1861, and it later passed to his widow and then to their son Joseph C. Powell, an agriculturalist active in the county Farmers' Alliance. The house sits in a grove of magnolias and other trees on a twelve-acre lawn. It is notable as a largely unaltered and well-documented plantation house.","period_of_significance":"19th Century","architect_builder":"E. G. Lind of Baltimore (architect)","architectural_style":"Italian Villa","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed in excellent condition and unaltered, in private ownership, occupied, and used as a private residence and for agriculture.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:58.564047-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/28/7201/47720128/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/71000581.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71000581/2cfafad83d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71000581/2cfafad83d-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Thomas T. Waterman, Photographer","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coolmore,_U.S._Route_64,_Tarboro_vicinity_(Edgecombe_County,_North_Carolina).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Thomas T. Waterman, Photographer</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coolmore,_U.S._Route_64,_Tarboro_vicinity_(Edgecombe_County,_North_Carolina).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720128","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coolmore_Plantation","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5167518"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/edgecombe-county/coolmore-plantation-71000581/"}