{"nrhp_refnum":"80002848","name":"Mulberry Grove","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"SW of Ashoskie","address_restricted":false,"city":"Ashoskie","county":"Hertford County","state":"NC","lat":36.292514564000044,"lon":-77.14985335199998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-11-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Historic - Non-Aboriginal","Education","Architecture","Religion"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Mulberry Grove is a two-story Greek Revival plantation house on the south side of NC 561, southwest of Ahoskie in Hertford County, North Carolina. Its original story-and-a-half brick section was built soon after 1758 and later raised, remodeled and enlarged.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as the ancestral seat of the Cotton and Moore families and as a mid-eighteenth-century Georgian house adapted into an exceptional brick Greek Revival plantation home. It is tied to Arthur Cotton, Godwin Cotton, Dr. Godwin Cotton Moore (founder of Chowan College) and John Wheeler Moore. It also reflects the economic growth, stylistic development and educational attainment of northeastern North Carolina plantation society.","narrative":"Mulberry Grove is a plantation house southwest of Ahoskie in Hertford County, North Carolina. Its oldest part, a story-and-a-half Flemish bond brick building with a full basement, is traditionally dated to soon after 1758 and attributed to Arthur Cotton. In the second quarter of the nineteenth century it was raised to two stories and enlarged with a frame rear wing, producing a T-shaped plan with a shallow hipped roof. The parlor has elaborate Greek Revival woodwork, including fluted Ionic pilasters, and the rear hall holds a Federal marbleized stair. The house stayed with the Cotton and Moore families for generations. Dr. Godwin Cotton Moore hosted the 1848 meeting of Baptist leaders that led to Chowan College, and his son John Wheeler Moore became an author and historian. After neglect in the twentieth century, the house was partly restored in the 1960s and was undergoing further renovation when nominated.","period_of_significance":"1700-1799, 1800-1899","architect_builder":"Arthur Cotton (builder of the original portion, traditionally)","architectural_style":"Greek Revival (adapted from a Georgian original)","criteria":["A","B","C","D"],"status_note":"Under renovation after a period of neglect; described as unoccupied, in fair condition, with a partial restoration in the 1960s and further restoration awaited.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:58.307767-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/33/7208/47720833/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/80002848.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720833","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulberry_Grove_(Ahoskie,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18749719"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/hertford-county/mulberry-grove-80002848/"}