{"nrhp_refnum":"71000621","name":"Burnside Plantation House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"On SR 1335","address_restricted":false,"city":"Williamsboro","county":"Vance County","state":"NC","lat":36.43397012600008,"lon":-78.46267787599999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1971-04-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A five-bay, two-story weatherboarded plantation house on a stone foundation, built about 1800 on SR 1335 about 1.8 miles from Williamsboro Crossroads, Vance County, North Carolina. It was remodeled before 1824 by Dr. Thomas Hunt.","why_significant":"The nomination calls Burnside one of the finest examples of Federal plantation architecture in central North Carolina. Its intricate interior plaster work and Adam mantels are singled out as especially fine and as showing the influence of styles popular in nearby Virginia. The property also has ties to Patrick Hamilton, who named it, and to Thomas Hardy, whose daughter became the mother of General Douglas MacArthur.","narrative":"Burnside is a five-bay, two-story plantation house of molded weatherboard on a stone foundation, located on SR 1335 near Williamsboro in Vance County. John Jones is thought to have built it about 1800, and Dr. Thomas Hunt altered the interior before 1824. That year Patrick Hamilton, a wealthy state senator, bought the property and named it Burnside after his Scottish birthplace. The house has a center-passage plan, an ornate Federal mantel in the southeast parlor, and fine plaster medallions and entablatures. Outbuildings include a board-and-batten kitchen and a smokehouse covered in beaded oak shingles, probably the last remnant of an earlier house complex built by Joseph Davenport around 1760. During the Civil War the house was the residence of Thomas Hardy, whose daughter later became the mother of General Douglas MacArthur. R. B. Crowder restored the house after buying it in 1937. It was listed for its architecture, notably its Federal interior plaster work and Adam-style mantels.","period_of_significance":"19th Century","architect_builder":"John Jones is thought to have built the house about 1800; Dr. Thomas Hunt remodeled the interior before 1824","architectural_style":"Federal","criteria":[],"status_note":"Private residence; restored by R. B. Crowder after 1937 and conveyed in 1943. Condition boxes are not legible.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:57.458847-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/0/7224/47722400/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/71000621.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71000621/ea11fe6d87-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71000621/ea11fe6d87-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Frances Benjamin Johnston","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Burnside_plantation_Vance_County_North_Carolina_by_Frances_Benjamin_Johnston_1938.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Frances Benjamin Johnston</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Burnside_plantation_Vance_County_North_Carolina_by_Frances_Benjamin_Johnston_1938.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722400","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnside_Plantation_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19986551"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/vance-county/burnside-plantation-house-71000621/"}