{"nrhp_refnum":"80002894","name":"Jones-Lee House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"805 E. Evans St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Greenville","county":"Pitt County","state":"NC","lat":35.607653318000075,"lon":-77.37441316899998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-11-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame Queen Anne style house at 805 East Evans Street in Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina, built between 1890 and 1898 by local contractor Charles T. Munford.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is a representative example of late 19th century eclectic architectural taste, shaped by pattern books and magazines. It retains unusually intact and elaborate surface decoration. It is the lone residential building left in an urban renewal area and one of few surviving late 19th century resources in a town that has lost most of its early buildings.","narrative":"Built between 1890 and 1898 by local contractor Charles T. Munford, this two-story frame house at 805 East Evans Street in Greenville is the last residence left in an urban renewal area that once held a late nineteenth century neighborhood. Its L-shaped plan and tall, narrow form are typical of modest houses built in North Carolina's growing towns, but its decoration is unusually complete. Bands of scalloped shingles, applied half-timbering, a union jack panel, sawn gable ornament and a latticed porch give the exterior its Queen Anne character. Inside, the house keeps plastered walls, French doors, beaded wainscot and a chamfered parlor mantel. Munford likely drew on pattern books, and he built several similar houses nearby. The Jones family lived here from 1926, and the house was altered little beyond enclosing a breezeway and adding a bathroom in 1959. It was listed as a rare surviving example of late nineteenth century taste in a town that has lost most of its early buildings.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Charles T. Munford, contractor","architectural_style":"Queen Anne","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Owned by the City of Greenville, which bought the lot in 1979 and intended to raze the house and sell the land for commercial development; the former owner was renting it until moving out in 1980. The house was described as unaltered except for minor changes.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:56.991633-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/97/7217/47721797/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/80002894.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80002894/3224a363bd-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80002894/3224a363bd-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Tradewinds","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jones-Lee_House.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Tradewinds</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:Jones-Lee_House.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721797","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jones%E2%80%93Lee_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19874748"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/pitt-county/jones-lee-house-80002894/"}