{"nrhp_refnum":"73001307","name":"Milton State Bank","other_names":["Branch Bank of the Bank of the State of North Carolina at Mi"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Main (Broad) St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Milton","county":"Caswell County","state":"NC","lat":36.53867733000004,"lon":-79.20455570199994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-04-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick banking house built in 1860 on the north side of Broad (now Main) Street in Milton, Caswell County, North Carolina, as a branch of the Bank of the State of North Carolina. It later became a private residence.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that the building is one of the finest North Carolina examples of the late transition from Greek Revival to Victorian styles, using Italianate and Gothic Revival motifs. It is also one of the few surviving monuments to Milton's antebellum commercial prosperity, since the town's factories and offices are gone. Its plan separates banking and residential functions, similar to the state bank's Raleigh banking house of 1813.","narrative":"Built in 1860, this two-story brick building on Main Street in Milton, Caswell County, began as a branch of the Bank of the State of North Carolina. It is three bays wide and five deep, with Flemish bond brick walls, a low hip roof, and bracketed cornices. Greek Revival in character, it carries Italianate and Gothic Revival details such as a paneled Gothic-style street door. The plan keeps commercial and domestic life apart: the street entrance opens to the banking room, with its iron-barred windows and cast-iron vault door, while a more elaborate entrance on the west side, sheltered by a porch, leads to the living quarters. A brick kitchen and two brick outbuildings stand behind. After the Civil War closed the bank, the building housed other banks, then served as a residence and the Milton Post Office until 1963. It is valued as an architectural example of the shift from Greek Revival to Victorian styles and as a rare reminder of Milton's antebellum trade prosperity.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival with Victorian Italianate and Gothic Revival accents","criteria":[],"status_note":"Now a private residence in good condition; the form checks it as unoccupied and unaltered, on its original site. It served as a bank until the 1900s and housed the Milton Post Office from about 1912 to 1963.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:57.751374-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/66/7194/47719466/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/73001307.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001307/d3c5f9768f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001307/d3c5f9768f-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Milton_State_Bank.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Milton_State_Bank.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"73001306","name":"Milton Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/milton-historic-district-73001306/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719466","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_State_Bank","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18154446"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/caswell-county/milton-state-bank-73001307/"}