{"nrhp_refnum":"71000616","name":"Grimesland Plantation","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"E of Grimesland on SR 1569","address_restricted":false,"city":"Grimesland","county":"Pitt County","state":"NC","lat":35.55626935750007,"lon":-77.16676664950444,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1971-03-31","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A plantation house with outbuildings on the Tar River near Grimesland, Pitt County, North Carolina. The two-story weatherboard main house dates from the 1790s and was enlarged during the Greek Revival period.","why_significant":"The nomination ties the plantation to the Grimes family, notably General Bryan Grimes, a secessionist delegate and Confederate major general. It also presents the property as a fine, evocative example of an antebellum North Carolina plantation, with a river setting, open fields and well-preserved outbuildings including slave quarters and a stone smokehouse.","narrative":"Grimesland Plantation is a Tar River farm in Pitt County, North Carolina, centered on a two-story weatherboard house built in the 1790s. William Grimes assembled the plantation from several tracts bought in 1786 and built the home for his family. During the Greek Revival period, single-story hip-roofed wings, a two-story rear addition and a front verandah were added. The center-passage interior has a three-run stair, Federal mantels in the main block and marble mantels in the wings. The grounds keep a barnyard with a row of frame slave quarters and a fieldstone smokehouse. The property is tied to the Grimes family. Bryan Grimes, a secession convention delegate, rose to major general in the Confederate army and was murdered in 1880. His son J. Bryan Grimes later served as North Carolina's Secretary of State. The open fields and riverside setting make the plantation especially evocative of the antebellum era.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival additions to an earlier Federal-style house","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as excellent and altered, on its original site; in private residential use. Slave quarters are noted as still occupied by farm laborers.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:58.499495-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/25/7218/47721825/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/71000616.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71000616/0fc4fa0739-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71000616/0fc4fa0739-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Tradewinds","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grimesland_Plantation.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:Grimesland_Plantation.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721825","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimesland_Plantation","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19873728"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/pitt-county/grimesland-plantation-71000616/"}