{"nrhp_refnum":"75001274","name":"Hermitage, The","other_names":["Tillery House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1 mi. W of Tillery off NC 481","address_restricted":false,"city":"Tillery","county":"Halifax County","state":"NC","lat":36.24181522100005,"lon":-77.50606060965839,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1975-05-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"The Hermitage is a frame tripartite plantation house with a two-story pedimented central block and one-story flanking wings, set in a clearing near Tillery in Halifax County, North Carolina, with a group of one-story outbuildings to the rear. It stands over a cellar on a brick foundation covered with scored stucco.","why_significant":"The house is presented as one of the few surviving examples of the tripartite house type in northeastern North Carolina and as a well-preserved example with an essentially unchanged exterior and interior woodwork. Its doorway, mantels and cornices show early Federal and transitional Georgian-Federal detailing. The plantation complex, including its outbuildings, is described as an intact rural setting associated with the Hill and Tillery families.","narrative":"Frame tripartite house with a pedimented two-story central block and one-story flanking wings, built about 1810 on a plantation near Tillery in Halifax County, North Carolina. It was built for planter Thomas Blount Hill, son of Colonel Whitmel Hill, a Revolutionary-era delegate to the Continental Congress, who acquired the former Ricks property after 1808 and named the house the Hermitage. The exterior keeps its molded weatherboards, nine-over-nine sash and a layered cornice with dentils and modillions. The entrance has an unusual doorway with triglyph-like blocks and a curvilinear cartouche. Interior woodwork includes a marble-faced mantel in the front hall and carved woodwork in the rear parlor. The house is regarded as one of the few surviving examples of the tripartite type in northeastern North Carolina. Its kitchen, smokehouse and dairy survive to the rear and form a rare group of plantation outbuildings in the region.","period_of_significance":"Ca. 1810","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Tripartite house form; early Federal with transitional Georgian-Federal mantels","criteria":[],"status_note":"The document describes the complex as deserted; the rear parlor mantel was removed in the last two years before nomination; the house is owned by heirs of the late Dr. John Tillery.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.849366-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/54/7206/47720654/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/75001274.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001274/8818ea8972-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001274/8818ea8972-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"JERRYE &amp; ROY KLOTZ, M.D.","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:THE_HERMITAGE,_TILLERY,_HALIFAX_COUNTY_NC.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">JERRYE &amp;amp; ROY KLOTZ, M.D.</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:THE_HERMITAGE,_TILLERY,_HALIFAX_COUNTY_NC.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720654","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hermitage_(Tillery,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18711578"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/halifax-county/hermitage-the-75001274/"}