{"nrhp_refnum":"78001954","name":"Fuller House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"307 N. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Louisburg","county":"Franklin County","state":"NC","lat":36.10375964800005,"lon":-78.29916605799997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-11-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Literature","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame Greek Revival house on Main Street in Louisburg, Franklin County, North Carolina, with a hip roof, center-hall plan and hip-roofed front porch. An older house on the lot was largely demolished and rebuilt on its foundation in 1856-1857.","why_significant":"The house is regarded as one of the relatively few surviving Greek Revival houses from Louisburg's antebellum prosperity, and its details are linked to the regional work of Warren County builder Albert Gamaliel Jones. It was the lifelong home of poet and novelist Edwin Wiley Fuller, who was born there in 1847 and died in the house in 1876. Its significance rests on both its architecture and its connection to Fuller's life and literary career.","narrative":"Two-story frame house on Main Street in Louisburg, built as a Greek Revival dwelling with a hip roof, a hip-roofed front porch and a center-hall plan with a double stair. Between 1856 and 1857 an older house on the lot was largely torn down and a new one erected on its foundation for Jones Fuller and Anna Long Thomas Fuller, who moved in by late 1857. Its heavy corner pilasters with turned elements and its stair are linked to the regional work of Warren County builder Albert Gamaliel Jones, and the house is regarded as one of the few surviving Greek Revival houses from Louisburg's antebellum period. It was the lifelong home of poet and novelist Edwin Wiley Fuller, born here in 1847 and dying in the house in 1876 at age 28. His mother's diary records the Union occupation of Louisburg in 1865. Fuller's novel Sea Gift drew on his years at the University of North Carolina.","period_of_significance":"1840s-1861","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Under renovation after a period of neglect.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.641344-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/23/7203/47720323/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/78001954.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78001954/2bb1805b62-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78001954/2bb1805b62-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FULLER_HOUSE,_FRANKLIN_COUNTY,_NC.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:FULLER_HOUSE,_FRANKLIN_COUNTY,_NC.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"87000041","name":"Louisburg Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/louisburg-historic-district-87000041/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720323","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuller_House_(Louisburg,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19461875"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/franklin-county/fuller-house-78001954/"}