{"nrhp_refnum":"74001348","name":"Wilkinson-Dozier House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"SE of Tarboro off SR 1524","address_restricted":false,"city":"Conetoe","county":"Edgecombe County","state":"NC","lat":35.864593772000035,"lon":-77.43664119199997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-10-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame Federal-style plantation farmhouse on the east side of S.R. 1526 in the Conetoe vicinity, southeast of Tarboro, Edgecombe County, North Carolina. Local tradition dates it to about 1826, though it may have been built up to a dozen years earlier.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it an excellent example of the sophisticated vernacular late Federal architecture of early nineteenth-century eastern North Carolina. It is distinguished by an unusual two-tier portico with a simplified Chinese Chippendale balustrade and by lavish reeded Adamesque interior woodwork.","narrative":"This two-story frame farmhouse in the Conetoe area of Edgecombe County, North Carolina, is a late Federal plantation house raised on brick piers, with exterior chimneys laid in Flemish bond. Its most striking feature is a tall double portico with slender columns and a light Chinese Chippendale lattice balustrade, a design the nomination describes as unusual in the state. Inside, the north and south rooms hold elaborate mantels covered in reeded ornament, including spiral-reeded colonnettes, sunburst motifs and a fan design, along with paneled wainscots and eight-panel doors. Local tradition places construction around 1826 for Silas Wilkinson, though his father Joshua, who died in 1818, may have built it earlier. Frederick Jones bought the estate in 1836, and the Dozier family, descended from Jones, held the house until 1973. Later rear and side additions exist, but most original fabric survives, and a 1974 restoration for use as a residence was under way.","period_of_significance":"1815 to 1830","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Federal (Adamesque interior woodwork)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in good condition and altered, with later additions at the rear and north side; the owner was restoring it for use as a home in 1974.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:57.514706-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/8/7201/47720108/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/74001348.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720108","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilkinson-Dozier_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18711690"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/edgecombe-county/wilkinson-dozier-house-74001348/"}