{"nrhp_refnum":"79003346","name":"Poplar Grove","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"US 17","address_restricted":false,"city":"Scotts Hill","county":"Pender County","state":"NC","lat":34.31970789950006,"lon":-77.76583031871724,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-07-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Poplar Grove is a large two-story Greek Revival style frame house and former seat of a 628-acre plantation, located at Scotts Hill in Pender County, North Carolina. It was built in the 1850s by Joseph M. Foy, with outbuildings including a smokehouse, a kitchen building, and a carriage house.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is an impressive and little altered example of a coastal North Carolina plantation house that adapts Wilmington building traditions to a rural setting. Its high basement and double-tiered rear porch with exterior stair are presented as regional responses to a hot, humid climate. It is also associated with the Foy family, including Joseph M. Foy, a planter and Unionist, and his son Joseph T. Foy, a businessman and politician.","narrative":"Poplar Grove is a two-story Greek Revival frame house at Scotts Hill in Pender County, set on a full brick basement among live oaks and magnolias. Joseph M. Foy, a planter in what was then New Hanover County, had it built in the 1850s on the site of a plantation whose main tract covered 628 acres. The house has a tetrastyle front porch, a double-tiered rear porch joined to the lawn by an exterior stair, and a basement gallery beneath the front porch, features the nomination links to the hot, humid coastal climate. Its interior has four rooms per floor around a central hall, with plaster medallions and Doric-pilastered mantels on the first floor. The property is significant for its architecture as a notable example of a coastal plantation house and for its ties to the Foy family, including Joseph T. Foy, who served in the state senate and house and helped promote the Onslow and East Carolina Railroad.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1850","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"The form states it is in excellent condition and that its landscaping has remained little changed; it is not stated to be occupied or vacant.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.705573-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/12/7217/47721712/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/79003346.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003346/cb009f6b0c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003346/cb009f6b0c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"BSLRed","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_House_at_Poplar_Grove.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">BSLRed</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:The_House_at_Poplar_Grove.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721712","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poplar_Grove_(Scotts_Hill,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18156913"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/pender-county/poplar-grove-79003346/"}