{"nrhp_refnum":"74001334","name":"Brown-Graves House and Brown's Store","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"SW of Yanceyville on NC 150","address_restricted":false,"city":"Locust Hill","county":"Caswell County","state":"NC","lat":36.359991627000056,"lon":-79.45123856499998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-07-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A late Georgian plantation house with outbuildings and a facing frame country store, on N.C. 150 (the Greensboro Road) in the Locust Hill community of Caswell County, North Carolina. The house dates to the late eighteenth century.","why_significant":"The house was the original seat of the Brown family and later the home of Calvin Graves, a nineteenth-century state senator, from 1843 to 1877. With its slave quarters, smokehouse, store and Greek Revival law office, it forms an unusually well-preserved plantation complex. Brown's Store served as a stagecoach stop and gave the community its early name.","narrative":"Along N.C. 150 in the Locust Hill community of Caswell County stands a late Georgian plantation house, a two-story frame dwelling with a hip roof, a full stone basement and a center-hall plan. Outbuildings include a smokehouse, two buildings said to be slave quarters, and a small Greek Revival law office. Across the road is Brown's Store, a one-story frame building that served as a stagecoach stop and gave the community its early name. The house was built by John Brown or his son Jethro, who managed the store from 1795 and kept a tavern, blacksmith shop and post office nearby. Calvin Graves bought the house in 1843 and lived there until 1877. A state senator, he cast the deciding vote for the North Carolina Railroad bill, which ended his political career in Caswell County. The complex is regarded as unusually well preserved.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Built either by John Brown or his son Jethro Brown (per the form)","architectural_style":"Late Georgian (house); Greek Revival porches and law office","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition marked excellent. The house is a private residence and the store is used as an antique shop.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:58.435643-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/73/7194/47719473/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/74001334.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719473","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown%E2%80%93Graves_House_and_Brown%27s_Store","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18148684"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/caswell-county/brown-graves-house-and-browns-store-74001334/"}