{"nrhp_refnum":"72000962","name":"Person Place","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"603 N. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Louisburg","county":"Franklin County","state":"NC","lat":36.105421395000064,"lon":-78.29659755599994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1972-06-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A frame house at 603 North Main Street in Louisburg, Franklin County, North Carolina, made up of a late Federal temple-form block joined to an older Georgian wing. The oldest section dates to about 1789.","why_significant":"The house is tied to the beginnings of both the town of Louisburg and Louisburg College. Its oldest section was later the home of Matthew Dickinson, first headmaster of Franklin Academy, which became the college. It also pairs a plain Georgian structure with a late Federal temple-form house.","narrative":"Set among large oaks on the north edge of the Louisburg College campus, this rambling frame house combines two eras of building. A plain one-and-a-half-story Georgian section, built about 1789 by Wilson Milner on land inherited from his father, adjoins a larger two-story Federal block with a temple form, a pedimented porch with Doric columns, and a lunette in the gable. The Federal block is thought to have been added by William P. Williams after he bought the property in 1822. Matthew Dickinson, first headmaster of Franklin Academy, which later became Louisburg College, owned the house from 1807. The Person family acquired it in 1858 and held it until the college bought it in 1970. Because of these links to the founding of the town and the college, the house serves as a visible reminder of local heritage, and its architecture shows an early Georgian house joined to a later Federal one.","period_of_significance":"18th Century","architect_builder":"Wilson Milner (oldest section, c. 1789); William P. Williams thought to have built the Federal block","architectural_style":"Federal and Georgian","criteria":[],"status_note":"Altered, fair condition; the form notes an effort to make it the official residence of the Louisburg College president. The college bought it in 1970.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:56.923602-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/34/7203/47720334/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/72000962.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72000962/f92c4707c9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72000962/f92c4707c9-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Unknown authorUnknown author","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prudence_Person_House,_603_North_Main_Street,_Louisburg_(Franklin_County,_North_Carolina).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Unknown authorUnknown author</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prudence_Person_House,_603_North_Main_Street,_Louisburg_(Franklin_County,_North_Carolina).jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"87000041","name":"Louisburg Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/louisburg-historic-district-87000041/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720334","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_Place","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18739442"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/franklin-county/person-place-72000962/"}