{"nrhp_refnum":"80002892","name":"Duke-Lawrence House","other_names":["Lawrence House","Shoulars House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"E of Rich Square off NC 305/561","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rich Square","county":"Northampton County","state":"NC","lat":36.267916343000024,"lon":-77.25213730699994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-10-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-and-a-half-story brick and frame Georgian dwelling with a T-shaped plan, located about two miles east of Rich Square in Northampton County, North Carolina, in a grove of trees at the end of a lane.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is one of the relatively few brick Georgian houses surviving in North Carolina from the second half of the eighteenth century, and that its unusual roofline and two-story brick addition make it probably unique in the state's domestic architecture. Its basement and attic are said to preserve information about mid-eighteenth-century construction practice, and it is presented as the most important example of its period remaining in Northampton County.","narrative":"Located about two miles east of Rich Square in Northampton County, North Carolina, the Duke-Lawrence House is an atypical Georgian dwelling with a T-shaped plan. The frame wing is believed to date from the mid-eighteenth century and is attributed to John Duke, who acquired the 1,250-acre tract in 1747 and later held more than 6,000 acres. A brick eastern section, probably added between 1787 and 1796, rises two full stories on its east elevation but only one on its west, a roofline regarded as probably unique in North Carolina domestic architecture. The basement contains a large cooking fireplace and a square pit, and the house retains much of its original plaster and fabric. Its interior woodwork was removed in the early 1930s and installed in Willow Oaks in Richmond, Virginia. The house is important for its surviving construction evidence and its link to the plantation economy of the northeastern part of the state.","period_of_significance":"1750-1799","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Georgian","criteria":["A","B","C","D"],"status_note":"Under renovation after a period of neglect; the document states it is no longer vacant.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.382928-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/80/7215/47721580/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/80002892.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721580","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke-Lawrence_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19461427"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/northampton-county/duke-lawrence-house-80002892/"}