{"nrhp_refnum":"80002842","name":"Magnolia","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"N of Scotland Neck on U.S. 258","address_restricted":false,"city":"Scotland Neck","county":"Halifax County","state":"NC","lat":36.161171036500036,"lon":-77.40660822140563,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-04-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Magnolia is a two-story Greek Revival frame plantation house with a formal 19th-century garden and surrounding working farmland, about a mile north of Scotland Neck in Halifax County, North Carolina. The house was built in the 1840s for James N. and Adelaide Smith.","why_significant":"The nomination presents Magnolia as a rare surviving antebellum plantation complex reflecting the prosperity and family ties of Halifax County planters. It cites the bold Greek Revival house influenced by Asher Benjamin's pattern book and its unusual \"wishbone\" stair. It also notes the formal garden shaped by the rector and landscape enthusiast Joseph Blount Cheshire, and the plantation's continued agricultural use.","narrative":"Magnolia is a plantation house and farm about a mile north of Scotland Neck in Halifax County, North Carolina. The two-story, hip-roofed frame house was begun in the 1840s for James Norfleet Smith and Adelaide Evans Smith, members of a wealthy Roanoke Valley planter family. The builder is not known. Its porch, paneled pilasters and Greek key entrance and mantels follow designs from Asher Benjamin's Practical House Carpenter. Inside, a long central hall is dominated by a rare \"wishbone\" stair. The grounds were laid out with the help of Joseph B. Cheshire, an Episcopal rector and amateur botanist, with symmetrical paths and exotic trees and shrubs, and parts of this plan can still be seen. Most original outbuildings are gone, though a small plank cabin survives. The house was renovated around 1914. The property remains part of an active farm, and it was listed for its link to antebellum plantation life, its architecture and its landscape design.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899 (specific dates: 1840s)","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":["A","B","C","D"],"status_note":"Condition is listed as excellent and unaltered, on its original site. The property is occupied, in private residential and agricultural use. The history notes the house once stood abandoned for a few years after the death of Adele Smith.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:57.803441-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/58/7206/47720658/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/80002842.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720658","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnolia_(Scotland_Neck,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18711604"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/halifax-county/magnolia-80002842/"}