{"nrhp_refnum":"73001305","name":"Rose Hill","other_names":["Bedford Brown House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"On U.S. 158 at jct. with NC 150","address_restricted":false,"city":"Locust Hill","county":"Caswell County","state":"NC","lat":36.37251619600005,"lon":-79.43147902299995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-10-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Rose Hill is a two-section Federal period frame house at the end of a boxwood- and cedar-lined drive on the Yanceyville-Greensboro Road at Brown's Store (Locust Hill), in Caswell County, North Carolina. It was probably built in 1802 by Jethro Brown.","why_significant":"The house was the home of Bedford Brown, a leading statesman of Caswell County and a U.S. Senator from 1829 to 1840. Its late Federal parlor and smaller addition retain marbleized woodwork, wallpaper and carpet that the nomination believes are original, a remarkably complete survival. The house is also tied to the Brown family's political and social life in the early nineteenth century.","narrative":"Rose Hill is a frame house on the Yanceyville-Greensboro Road at Brown's Store, in the Locust Hill community of Caswell County, North Carolina. A two-story main block with a gable roof and beaded weatherboards was probably built in 1802 by Jethro Brown, a planter and tavern keeper. His son Bedford Brown, elected to the North Carolina House of Commons at twenty in 1815, later served in the United States Senate from 1829 to 1840. He lived here after his marriage to Mary Lumpkin Glenn and sold the house in 1844, buying it back in 1855. The smaller addition has an elaborate late Federal parlor, with a marbleized three-part mantel, a fanlight and sunburst woodwork, and wallpaper and a carpet believed to be original. Its rare survival of this interior finish is the main reason for the house's importance.","period_of_significance":"1802, ca. 1835","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal; late Federal","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"The house is now owned by members of the Brown family.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.520326-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/70/7194/47719470/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/73001305.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001305/6846ec3657-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001305/6846ec3657-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"JERRYE &amp; ROY KLOTZ MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BEDFORD_BROWN_ROSE_HILL.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">JERRYE &amp;amp; ROY KLOTZ MD</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:BEDFORD_BROWN_ROSE_HILL.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719470","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Hill_(Locust_Hill,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18157527"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/caswell-county/rose-hill-73001305/"}