{"nrhp_refnum":"81000425","name":"Humber, Robert Lee, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"117 W. 5th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Greenville","county":"Pitt County","state":"NC","lat":35.61098637600003,"lon":-77.37132166799995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1981-07-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Art","Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-a-half-story frame house with Queen Anne and Colonial Revival details on a large corner lot east of the Greenville Municipal Office Building in Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina. It was built in 1895 for Robert Lee Humber, Sr.","why_significant":"The house is significant for its association with Robert Lee Humber, Jr., who was born and lived there and whose public career included work to establish the North Carolina Museum of Art and promote international peace through a world federation and the United Nations. It is also cited as a representative late 19th-century urban residence that has been altered to reflect changing tastes.","narrative":"Built in 1895 for Robert Lee Humber, Sr., this two-and-a-half-story frame house in Greenville combines Queen Anne and Colonial Revival features. Its T-shaped plan, wraparound Ionic-columned porch, and sawn scrollwork under the eaves give it a late nineteenth-century urban character on a corner lot. Interiors were enriched during renovations in the 1940s and 1950s with Georgian Revival woodwork, imported French marble mantels, and a walnut-paneled sitting room. The house is best known as the birthplace and home of Robert Lee Humber, Jr. (1898-1970), an attorney and state legislator. From this house he worked to establish and develop the North Carolina Museum of Art and to promote world federation and the United Nations. The property is also regarded as a representative example of a late nineteenth-century residence that was altered over time.","period_of_significance":"1900-","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Queen Anne and Colonial Revival","criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"The house with minor renovations is scheduled to become the eastern field office for the North Carolina Division of Archives and History.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:40.880659-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/5/7218/47721805/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/81000425.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/81000425/18da2d3346-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/81000425/18da2d3346-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Tradewinds","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Robert_Lee_Humber_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:Robert_Lee_Humber_House.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"03000419","name":"Greenville Commercial Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/greenville-commercial-historic-district-03000419/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721805","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Lee_Humber_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19874451"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/pitt-county/humber-robert-lee-house-81000425/"}