{"nrhp_refnum":"82003424","name":"Rosedale","other_names":["Wharton House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NW of Washington off SR 1407","address_restricted":false,"city":"Washington","county":"Beaufort County","state":"NC","lat":35.596771035000074,"lon":-77.07963868899998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-04-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Rosedale (also called Wharton House) is a large two-and-a-half story frame plantation house in a grove of live oaks on State Road 1407, about four miles west of Washington in Beaufort County, North Carolina. It was probably built soon after 1854 for planter David Bradley Perry.","why_significant":"The nomination calls Rosedale a rare surviving example of the antebellum plantation mansion in eastern North Carolina, and the only large plantation dwelling in the area dating from the prosperous decade before the Civil War. It combines Italianate exterior trim with Greek Revival interiors. It is also tied to planter David B. Perry, Col. Rufus Watson Wharton, and U.S. Senator John H. Small.","narrative":"Rosedale is a large frame plantation house standing in a grove of live oaks about four miles west of Washington, North Carolina. Probably built soon after 1854, it was the home of David Bradley Perry, who by 1860 held 2,700 acres and 99 slaves. After the Civil War his son-in-law, Col. Rufus Watson Wharton, restored the farm's productivity and raised around a hundred bales of cotton a year. Wharton's daughter and her husband, U.S. Senator John H. Small, later leased the property to tenants. The three-bay, center-hall house pairs Italianate exterior brackets and decorative chimneys with Greek Revival interior trim, and it has a prominent stair with an octagonal newel. It was never given plumbing or wiring. Though worn and long unoccupied, it remains structurally sound and largely as built. It is considered the best surviving example of its type in Beaufort County outside Washington, and the grounds may hold archeological remains of household life.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Vernacular Italianate and Greek Revival","criteria":["A","B","C","D"],"status_note":"Described as deteriorated but intact and structurally sound; not inhabited for over twenty years, with storage listed as a present use, and never fitted with plumbing or wiring.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:57.471951-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/1/7190/47719001/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/82003424.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719001","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosedale_(Washington,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18157533"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/beaufort-county/rosedale-82003424/"}