{"nrhp_refnum":"80002810","name":"Strawberry Hill","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Church St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Edenton","county":"Chowan County","state":"NC","lat":36.06130985300007,"lon":-76.59642338199995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-05-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Strawberry Hill is a late eighteenth century plantation house on the south side of Church Street Extension at its junction with SR 1105, just outside Edenton in Chowan County, North Carolina. The original section was built about 1785-1788 and was later enlarged.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as a well-preserved Albemarle plantation house that evolved through Late Georgian, Federal and Victorian phases. It is tied to Charles Johnson, a Chowan County merchant and politician who served in the state senate and was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. It also represents the region's antebellum plantation economy and may hold archaeological information about plantation life.","narrative":"Strawberry Hill is a plantation house on the edge of Edenton, North Carolina, begun in the late 1780s for Charles Johnson, a Scottish-born merchant and Chowan County politician. The first section was a two-story, side-hall house with late Georgian and Federal detailing. In the nineteenth century it gained an eastern extension, giving it a center-hall plan two rooms deep, and a two-tiered front porch typical of the Albemarle Sound region. Twentieth-century additions were made at the rear. Inside, an elliptical arch with reeded posts and a scalloped archivolt marks the stair hall, and a Federal mantel carries pinwheel-patterned end blocks. Johnson served in the state senate and was later elected to Congress. The land had earlier belonged to Captain Nicholas Crisp, and many owners farmed it with enslaved labor until after the Civil War. The house is valued as a modest, dignified example of Albemarle plantation architecture and a reminder of the area's plantation society.","period_of_significance":"1785-1788","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Georgian / Federal, with Victorian-era additions","criteria":["A","B","C","D"],"status_note":"Occupied as a private residence; described as refurbished and kept in good repair, though its original farm acreage has been sold off.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:58.459489-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/25/7196/47719625/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/80002810.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80002810/189a148593-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80002810/189a148593-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Strawberry_Hill_at_Edenton.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Strawberry_Hill_at_Edenton.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719625","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strawberry_Hill_(Edenton,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18385781"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/chowan-county/strawberry-hill-80002810/"}