{"nrhp_refnum":"79001720","name":"White Rock Plantation","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"N of Hollister on NC 1315","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hollister","county":"Halifax County","state":"NC","lat":36.29461817400008,"lon":-77.92330789683925,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-02-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A plantation complex near Hollister in western Halifax County, North Carolina, centered on a two-story frame house of late Georgian form built in the late eighteenth century, with early outbuildings, a family cemetery and surrounding farmland.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the property reflects the Roanoke Valley plantation system and is tied to Joseph John Williams I, a Revolutionary-period figure. The house is a representative late Georgian frame plantation house. It also holds early nineteenth-century Federal interior woodwork of the Montmorenci-Prospect Hill school, now the only surviving North Carolina example of its stair treatment. Family knowledge of earlier building sites suggests archeological potential.","narrative":"White Rock Plantation is a farm complex in western Halifax County that has stayed in the Williams family since Joseph John Williams bought 3,200 acres in 1772. Its main house is a five-bay, two-story frame dwelling with a gable roof, paired brick end chimneys and molded weatherboards, probably built in the late eighteenth century for his son. Around 1820 the interior received elaborate Federal woodwork, including a carved stair and reeded mantels, related to the lost houses Montmorenci and Prospect Hill. This stair is the only surviving North Carolina example of its kind. A mid-twentieth-century \"Mount Vernon\" porch is a removable addition. Behind the house stand a timber-frame smokehouse, a crib, a laundry and a stone dairy, along with the family cemetery and the sites of an earlier brick house, kitchen, office and well. Fields and woods still surround the buildings. The property is valued for its plantation history, its Revolutionary-era associations and its architecture.","period_of_significance":"1700-1799, 1800-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Georgian vernacular frame plantation house with late Federal (Adamesque) interior woodwork","criteria":["A","B","C","D"],"status_note":"Occupied private residence; farmland and woodland around it remain in agricultural use. The form lists good condition, with the original site and some alterations.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:56.839022-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/64/7206/47720664/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/79001720.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720664","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Rock_Plantation","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18711689"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/halifax-county/white-rock-plantation-79001720/"}