{"nrhp_refnum":"76001329","name":"Puppy Creek Plantation","other_names":["McGregor-Lamont House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NW of Rockfish on SR 1409","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rockfish","county":"Hoke County","state":"NC","lat":35.02099545500005,"lon":-79.12892828499997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-12-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Puppy Creek Plantation, also called the McGregor-Lamont House, is a two-story frame Federal style farmhouse built about 1821 on a knoll above Puppy Creek, northwest of Rockfish in Hoke County, North Carolina.","why_significant":"It is described as the best-preserved of the few antebellum buildings known in Hoke County, in the Sandhills region. Its front-room woodwork is refined, and its partly surviving original plan has a stair rising from the back porch area. It is also tied to planter Malcom McGregor and to the Lamont family, who contributed to the area's economic and social development.","narrative":"Puppy Creek Plantation, also known as the McGregor-Lamont House, is a two-story frame Federal style farmhouse built about 1821 on a knoll above Puppy Creek in the Sandhills of southeastern North Carolina. It was built for Malcom McGregor, a Scottish-born planter and mill owner who held nearly 10,000 acres by 1850. The house has a four-bay front, end chimneys, a shed porch and finely finished interior woodwork, including paneled mantels, dentil cornices and chair rails in the principal rooms. An enclosed stair rises from the original rear porch area, a climatic adaptation noted in eastern North Carolina. McGregor moved his family to Texas in the 1850s and sold the land to the Lamont family, who ran a turpentine operation and likely mills and a store nearby. The Lamonts lived there until 1911. The house is regarded as the best-preserved antebellum building in Hoke County.","period_of_significance":"1821 (ca.)","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as well preserved and in good condition, altered, and on its original site; a 20th-century rear ell was added and the foundation piers were infilled with cinder block.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:56.441638-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/92/7208/47720892/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/76001329.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001329/f56fe72721-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001329/f56fe72721-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PUPPY_CREEK_PLANTATION,_HOKE_COUNTY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerrye &amp;amp; Roy Klotz, MD</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PUPPY_CREEK_PLANTATION,_HOKE_COUNTY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720892","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puppy_Creek_Plantation","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18749721"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/hoke-county/puppy-creek-plantation-76001329/"}