{"nrhp_refnum":"78001977","name":"Pool Rock Plantation","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NE of Williamsboro on SR 1380","address_restricted":false,"city":"Williamsboro","county":"Vance County","state":"NC","lat":36.45429466050004,"lon":-78.41760054695168,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-11-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Pool Rock Plantation is a double frame plantation house in a rural part of Vance County, North Carolina, near Williamsboro. It joins an early nineteenth-century Federal-style house to a mid-1850s Italianate house by a two-story hall.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house reflects the agrarian plantation economy of the northeastern Piedmont before the Civil War. It also embodies two architectural periods: a refined rural Federal-style dwelling and a Greco-Italianate front block with the hallmarks of Warrenton builder Jacob Holt and his workshop.","narrative":"Pool Rock is a plantation house in rural Vance County, North Carolina, made up of two dwellings joined back to back by a hall. The older rear section is a two-story, gable-roofed Federal house, probably built between 1805 and 1827, with fine molded woodwork and brick chimneys. The front section, added around 1853, is a bracketed Greek Revival and Italianate house with a shallow hip roof, an ornate porch, and pinwheel tracery at the entrance. Its details closely match the work of Warrenton builder Jacob Holt, though no document confirms his involvement. The property was once part of a plantation of more than 1,400 acres and passed through the Mitchell, Lanier, Taylor, Sharp and Parker families. Its name is traditionally traced to a caretaker named Poole and a nearby rock slide. Today the house sits on about four and a half acres with an office building, a relocated log house and other outbuildings. It was listed for its link to the pre-Civil War farm economy and for its two distinct architectural periods.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"1850s: Jacob W. Holt? (not documented as Holt's work)","architectural_style":"Federal (rear section) and Greek Revival/Italianate blend in the style of Jacob Holt (front section)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Described as in good condition and occupied as a private residence; it is no longer the seat of a working farm, and restoration was still underway at the time of the form.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:56.332922-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/94/7223/47722394/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/78001977.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78001977/2815f12724-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78001977/2815f12724-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pool_Rock_Plantation_house.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pool_Rock_Plantation_house.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722394","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pool_Rock_Plantation","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19987633"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/vance-county/pool-rock-plantation-78001977/"}