{"nrhp_refnum":"79001758","name":"Pleasant Hill/Hawkins House","other_names":["Rivenoak"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"W of Middleburg on SR 1371","address_restricted":false,"city":"Middleburg","county":"Vance County","state":"NC","lat":36.40064391900006,"lon":-78.34253580499995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-03-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Pleasant Hill, also called Rivenoak, is a large 2½-story frame plantation house on the east side of SR 1371 near Middleburg, Vance County, North Carolina. It dates from the late eighteenth century, was probably built by Philemon Hawkins, Jr., and was remodeled in the mid-nineteenth century.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is tied to the politically prominent Hawkins family, including Philemon Hawkins, Jr., a signer of the 1776 North Carolina Constitution, and his son William, governor during the War of 1812. It also represents the wealthy plantation region of the northeast Piedmont. Architecturally, it is an unusually large and well-preserved eighteenth century house with Greek Revival remodeling.","narrative":"Pleasant Hill, later renamed Rivenoak, is a large frame plantation house near Middleburg in Vance County, North Carolina. Built in the late eighteenth century, probably by Philemon Hawkins, Jr., it rises two and a half stories with a five-bay facade, paired brick end chimneys laid in Flemish bond, and a Georgian central-hall plan unusual among surviving early North Carolina houses. Around the 1850s the interior and front were updated with Greek Revival door and window frames, mantels and a Greek key frieze. The Hawkins family made the house a social center of the region. Philemon Jr. signed the 1776 state constitution, and his son William, born here, served as governor from 1811 to 1814. The Carroll family owned the property from 1856 until 1978. Later porches and wings have been removed during a careful rehabilitation, revealing the original block. The house is regarded as one of the largest and best-preserved early houses in the county.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Probably Philemon Hawkins, Jr. (builder)","architectural_style":"Eighteenth century Georgian double-pile, central-hall plan with mid-nineteenth century Greek Revival embellishments","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Occupied and under careful rehabilitation after a period of neglect; later additions such as a twentieth century stone porch and side wings were removed. No outbuildings stand.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:58.360383-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/15/7224/47722415/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/79001758.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722415","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleasant_Hill/Hawkins_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19987605"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/vance-county/pleasant-hill-hawkins-house-79001758/"}