{"nrhp_refnum":"77001008","name":"Belvidere","other_names":["Exum Newby House","Lamb House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NC 37, W of Perquimans River","address_restricted":false,"city":"Belvidere","county":"Perquimans County","state":"NC","lat":36.26904428800003,"lon":-76.54634365799996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1977-08-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Belvidere is a five-bay, one-and-one-half-story eighteenth-century frame plantation house on N.C. 37, just west of the Perquimans River in Belvidere, Perquimans County, North Carolina. It was built in the mid to late eighteenth century for Thomas Newby or his son Exum Newby.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it a well-preserved Georgian-style plantation house with a dramatic hip-on-gambrel roof, apparently unique in the state for its period. It is also tied to the Newby family, substantial planters and leaders in local Quaker (Friends) meetings, a denomination vital to the early Albemarle region.","narrative":"Belvidere is an eighteenth-century frame plantation house on N.C. 37 near the Perquimans River in Perquimans County, North Carolina. It is five bays wide and one and one-half stories tall, and its hip-on-gambrel roof is believed to be unique in the state for its period. Other features include double-shouldered brick chimneys laid in Flemish bond, a modillion cornice, a pedimented entrance porch, and long flat-paneled wainscots inside. The house was probably built for Thomas Newby, a planter and merchant who was an overseer and elder in the Quaker community, or for his son Exum Newby, who operated mills, a wharf and a shipyard. The Newby name and later the Lamb family held the property for about a century. The house gave its name to the nearby village, academy and township. Its Georgian character, rare roof form and links to prominent Quaker planters explain its listing.","period_of_significance":"1700-1799","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Georgian","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as occupied private property in good condition and altered; the house was recently sold to new private owners at the time of nomination.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:57.689385-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/34/7217/47721734/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/77001008.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77001008/d10859f1fa-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77001008/d10859f1fa-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Waterman, Thomas T., creator","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Historic_American_Buildings_Survey,_Thomas_T._Waterman,_Photographer_July,_1940._-_Exum_Newby_House,_NC_Route_37,_Winfall,_Perquimans_County,_NC_HABS_NC,72-WINF.V,1-1.tif\" rel=\"noopener\">Waterman, Thomas T., creator</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Historic_American_Buildings_Survey,_Thomas_T._Waterman,_Photographer_July,_1940._-_Exum_Newby_House,_NC_Route_37,_Winfall,_Perquimans_County,_NC_HABS_NC,72-WINF.V,1-1.tif"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721734","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belvidere_(Belvidere,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19600433"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/perquimans-county/belvidere-77001008/"}