{"nrhp_refnum":"73001346","name":"Oakland","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"At Airlie, NE corner of NC 4 and SR 1310","address_restricted":false,"city":"Airlie","county":"Halifax County","state":"NC","lat":36.336813015000075,"lon":-77.88443234399995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-07-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Oakland is an early nineteenth-century late Federal temple-form plantation house at Airlie, Halifax County, North Carolina, at the northeast corner of N.C. 4 and S.R. 1310. The builder is not firmly identified.","why_significant":"The nomination argues Oakland is a handsome, well-preserved example of the temple-form house type, which Thomas Waterman called \"the simplest and the best\" in North Carolina. Its imaginative late Federal interior and exterior details are of interest within the regional architecture of Warren and Halifax counties. It is the only survivor of a group of ornate plantation houses built near Airlie.","narrative":"Oakland is a late Federal plantation house at Airlie in Halifax County, North Carolina, built in the early nineteenth century. It belongs to a regional group of temple-form dwellings that includes Mount Petros, Elgin and Dalkeith in neighboring Warren County. The three-bay west front has a pediment, paneled pilasters with incised half-sunbursts, and a freely interpreted Doric entablature with reeded triglyphs. The tetrastyle porch is a later addition modeled on the one at Elgin. Inside, a transverse hall leads to two large rooms, with reeding, gouged garlands, twisted cable molding and three-part mantels. Oakland is the simplest and most restrained of the Halifax group. It was once part of a trio of Airlie plantation houses that also included Prospect Hill and the Reid-Williams-Macon House, and it is the only one left. Family tradition ties its construction to the Thorne and Williams families, though no proof of the builder has been found. The Thorne family has owned it since 1856.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Federal temple-form plantation house","criteria":[],"status_note":"Private residence, occupied, in good condition, with some alterations; has remained in the Thorne family since 1856.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:56.634847-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/68/7206/47720668/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/73001346.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001346/8d35880655-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001346/8d35880655-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oakland_at_Airlie.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oakland_at_Airlie.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720668","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland_(Airlie,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18711626"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/halifax-county/oakland-73001346/"}