{"nrhp_refnum":"71000603","name":"Peebles House","other_names":["Harmony Hall"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"109 E. King St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Kinston","county":"Lenoir County","state":"NC","lat":35.25932958800007,"lon":-77.58274935899993,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1971-08-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Harmony Hall, also called the Peebles House, is a two-story frame house with a brick foundation at 109 East King Street in Kinston, Lenoir County, North Carolina. The earliest part may date from between 1772 and 1776, and wings were added about 1830.","why_significant":"The form calls it thought to be the oldest house in Kinston and notes its link to Richard Caswell, first governor of North Carolina. During the Revolution it housed James Glasgow, the secretary of state, and state records, and it hosted meetings of the State Board of War. It is also an eighteenth-century house greatly modified by later owners in Georgian, Federal and Greek Revival styles.","narrative":"Harmony Hall, also known as the Peebles House, is a two-story frame house on East King Street in Kinston. Its oldest section may have been built by Jesse and Elizabeth Cobb between 1772 and 1776, which makes it thought to be the town's oldest house. During the Revolution, Governor Richard Caswell moved major state offices to Kinston, and secretary of state James Glasgow lived in the house, keeping official records there until the British threatened the town in 1781. The State Board of War also met in the house. Caswell later owned it and gave it to his son in 1782. Extensive remodeling in the 1790s was followed by wings added about 1830 and Greek Revival trim by mid-century. A low pyramidal roof replaced an earlier gable roof. John Henry Peebles, a member of Kinston's first city council, acquired the house in 1845. Since 1937 the Kinston Woman's Club has maintained it as a meeting place for civic and private groups.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Possibly built by Jesse and Elizabeth Cobb","architectural_style":"Georgian, Federal and Greek Revival elements","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed in good condition and occupied; used as a clubhouse and meeting place by the Kinston Woman's Club since 1937.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:58.3728-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/56/7210/47721056/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/71000603.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71000603/5ee40b6672-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71000603/5ee40b6672-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Tradewinds","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peebles_House.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Tradewinds</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peebles_House.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721056","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmony_Hall_(Kinston,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19867720"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/lenoir-county/peebles-house-71000603/"}