{"nrhp_refnum":"75001266","name":"Davis, Archibald H., Plantation","other_names":["Cypress Hall"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"SE of Louisburg off NC 581","address_restricted":false,"city":"Justice","county":"Franklin County","state":"NC","lat":36.05358345150003,"lon":-78.19551474611424,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1975-07-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Archibald H. Davis Plantation (Cypress Hall) is a plantation complex near Justice in Franklin County, North Carolina, with a two-story frame Greek Revival house built in the late 1820s or more probably the 1830s, plus sixteen or more outbuildings on a still-working farm.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it an unusually complete and well-preserved antebellum plantation complex, with an early Greek Revival dwelling and one of the largest and best-preserved groups of outbuildings in this agricultural county. Notable features include the frame \"trading post\" and a kitchen built of native stone blocks. It is also tied to planter Archibald H. Davis and to the later history of the property after Reconstruction.","narrative":"Cypress Hall, the Archibald H. Davis Plantation, is a working farm near Justice in Franklin County, North Carolina. Its centerpiece is a two-story, five-bay frame house with a center-hall plan and Greek Revival interior finish, thought to date from the late 1820s or 1830s. Around it stand sixteen or more outbuildings, including a rare stone kitchen with a large fireplace and bake oven, a Greek Revival well house, a pea house, a smokehouse, former slave or tenant houses, log tobacco barns, and a frame \"trading post\" that may predate the main dwelling. Archibald H. Davis, a planter who inherited the land around 1821, owned dozens of slaves and died in 1854. The estate declined after the Civil War and was sold in 1894 to A. W. Wilson, whose descendants have farmed it since. The property was listed for its completeness as an antebellum plantation complex and for its architecture.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied private residence and still-working farm; condition rated excellent to good, with the house and most outbuildings kept in good condition.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:58.570439-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/0/7203/47720300/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/75001266.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720300","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_H._Davis_Plantation","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18711554"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/franklin-county/davis-archibald-h-plantation-75001266/"}