{"nrhp_refnum":"72000929","name":"Milford","other_names":["Relfe-Grice-Sawyer House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"On SR 1205, 0.5 mi. S of jct. with NC 343","address_restricted":false,"city":"Camden","county":"Camden County","state":"NC","lat":36.35931705400003,"lon":-76.21577721199998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1972-03-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Milford, also called the Relfe-Grice-Sawyer House, is a two-story brick house on the west side of SR 1205 south of Highway 343 near Camden, Camden County, North Carolina. A brick carved 1746 marks its construction, attributed to John Ivey.","why_significant":"The nomination calls the house architecturally unique in North Carolina. Its bare walls, high broad gables, plaster cove cornice, string courses and tumbled brickwork reflect a Dutch idiom from the Delaware River region. It is the only known surviving example of that idiom south of Maryland and is probably the state's earliest two-story brick dwelling.","narrative":"Milford is a formal two-story brick house near Camden, North Carolina, set on a broad grassy site shaded by old trees. A brick on the interior face of the north chimney bears the date 1746, and dated bricks in the interior walls point to John Ivey as its builder. The walls are laid in Flemish bond with glazed headers, and the south gable uses one-to-three common bond, described as the earliest known example of that bonding in the state. Tumbled brickwork runs along the gable rakes, and a large plaster cove cornice crowns the walls. The house passed from Ivey to Joseph James, then to the Grice, Gregory and Sawyer families, and remained with the Sawyers until 1955. Its significance rests on its architecture. Features such as bare wall expanses, high broad gables and the cove cornice reflect a style imported from the Delaware River region. It is the only known surviving example of this Dutch idiom south of Maryland and is probably the state's earliest two-story brick dwelling.","period_of_significance":"18th Century","architect_builder":"John Ivey (built, per dated bricks and deed history)","architectural_style":"Dutch idiom, as found in the Delaware River region","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed in good condition, altered, on its original site, and used as a private residence.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:57.961293-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/11/7194/47719411/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/72000929.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72000929/f1020dd718-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72000929/f1020dd718-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jcl73","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Milford_house.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jcl73</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:Milford_house.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719411","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milford_(Camden,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6851705"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/camden-county/milford-72000929/"}