{"nrhp_refnum":"71000592","name":"Melrose","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"100 E. Broad St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Murfreesboro","county":"Hertford County","state":"NC","lat":36.44431766500003,"lon":-77.09996509799998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1971-03-31","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Military","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Melrose is a brick house at 100 East Broad Street in Murfreesboro, Hertford County, North Carolina, begun probably in the first decade of the 19th century by William Hardy Murfree and later enlarged with Greek Revival wings.","why_significant":"The nomination cites the house as the home of several prominent state and national political and military figures, including the Murfree family, one of the South's important early pioneer families. It is also described as one of the most architectonic buildings in Hertford County and an important visual element of the Murfreesboro Historic District.","narrative":"Melrose is a brick house at 100 East Broad Street in Murfreesboro, North Carolina. It began as a two-story, gable-roofed building with interior end chimneys and a modillion cornice, probably built in the first decade of the 1800s by businessman and legislator William Hardy Murfree. Early in the Greek Revival period, two-story, two-bay wings were added, turning the house into a T shape and shifting its main facade to the south. That front is seven bays wide and dominated by a tetrastyle Ionic portico, with a semicircular balcony and a balustrade above. Inside, the oldest rooms keep paneled wainscot, a two-flight stair, and a simple Adam mantel. Around 1813 Murfree sold the property to General Joseph F. Dickinson, who commanded American forces at Norfolk in the War of 1812 and added to the house. The property is valued for its association with prominent political and military figures and the pioneering Murfree family, and for its architecture within Hertford County and the Murfreesboro Historic District.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"William Hardy Murfree (began the house); Brigadier General Joseph F. Dickinson (built additions)","architectural_style":"Greek Revival (wings and portico added to an earlier two-story brick house with Adam-style interior detail)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as excellent condition, altered, on its original site, and used as a private residence; the rear has been extensively altered with two brick additions in the last decade before nomination.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:58.339617-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/77/7208/47720877/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/71000592.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71000592/0ef6dae3e3-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71000592/0ef6dae3e3-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Waterman, Thomas T., creator","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Historic_American_Buildings_Survey,_Thomas_T._Waterman,_Photographer_July,_1940._-_Murfree_House,_100_East_Broad_Street,_Murfreesboro,_Hertford_County,_NC_HABS_NC,46-MURF,3-1.tif\" rel=\"noopener\">Waterman, Thomas T., creator</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Historic_American_Buildings_Survey,_Thomas_T._Waterman,_Photographer_July,_1940._-_Murfree_House,_100_East_Broad_Street,_Murfreesboro,_Hertford_County,_NC_HABS_NC,46-MURF,3-1.tif"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720877","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melrose_(Murfreesboro,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18739440"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/hertford-county/melrose-71000592/"}