{"nrhp_refnum":"72000949","name":"Smith, Benjamin, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"210 Hancock St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New Bern","county":"Craven County","state":"NC","lat":35.105548965000025,"lon":-77.04151159699995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1972-04-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Military","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-a-half-story brick side-hall-plan town house at 210 Hancock Street in New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina, built before 1802 for Benjamin Smith, its first recorded owner.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it an interesting early version of the brick side-hall-plan town house that dominated early nineteenth-century New Bern. Its interiors, essentially intact apart from the basement, combine Georgian and Federal trim in a puzzling way. Its position near the railroad and Trent River bridge also made it an important site during the Civil War occupation of New Bern.","narrative":"Built before 1802 at 210 Hancock Street in New Bern, this brick house rises two and a half stories above a full basement and follows the side-hall plan that was popular in the town in the early nineteenth century. The walls are laid in Flemish bond, and the gable roof carries a carved wooden cornice with modillions and a Wall of Troy band. The main entrance is on the south side, and the interior mixes Georgian and Federal mantels, a combination the nomination calls puzzling. Benjamin Smith, whose wife Sarah Dry was the daughter of a wealthy planter, probably built it, and they sold it to Charles Bates in 1802. Later owners included Thomas Daves, John G. Kinsey and James W. Bryan. Maude Moore Latham bought it in 1895. During the Civil War, its view of the railroad and the Trent River bridge made it a lookout and troop quarters, first for Confederate and then for Union forces, who held New Bern from 1862.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Brick side-hall plan town house with Georgian and Federal interior detail","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as good and altered, on its original site; the form lists the use as a private residence.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:57.68729-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/50/7197/47719750/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/72000949.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72000949/da46e20a31-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72000949/da46e20a31-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Tradewinds","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Benjamin_Smith_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:Benjamin_Smith_House.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719750","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Smith_House_(New_Bern,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4889239"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/craven-county/smith-benjamin-house-72000949/"}