{"nrhp_refnum":"82003429","name":"Oaklana","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NE of Roxobel off SR 1249","address_restricted":false,"city":"Roxobel","county":"Bertie County","state":"NC","lat":36.21970735900004,"lon":-77.22249888199997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-04-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Oaklana is a frame, two-and-a-half story, five-bay house of the Federal period with a two-story rear ell, set in a five-acre oak grove on the outskirts of Roxobel in Bertie County, North Carolina. It was built by Perry Cotten Tyler after he bought the property in 1825.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a large and handsome intact example of vernacular Federal domestic architecture, with well-detailed interior woodwork and mantels that mark it as the home of a family of means. It also states that the property has been associated with the antebellum plantation economy of eastern North Carolina and with the Tyler family, who have owned it since 1825.","narrative":"Oaklana is a frame, two-and-a-half story house of the Federal period near Roxobel in Bertie County, North Carolina, standing among oak trees on a five-acre grove. Perry Cotten Tyler bought the 240-acre site from Hezekiah Callum in 1825 and is credited with building the house soon afterward. The house has a center hall flanked by large rooms, a two-story rear ell, turned porch columns, a modillion block cornice and mantels of vernacular design, with much of the original woodwork intact. Tyler was a prosperous planter whose 1850 and 1860 census entries record dozens of enslaved workers on his land. The house has remained with the Tyler family for more than a century, and it is valued for its intact Federal-period interiors, its association with the antebellum plantation economy of eastern North Carolina, and its family furniture, some of it made by an enslaved carpenter named Charles.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Perry Cotten Tyler (builder); a Mr. Bazemore (carpenter, per family tradition)","architectural_style":"Federal period, vernacular","criteria":["A","B","C","D"],"status_note":"Altered in 1937 with a kitchen, bathrooms and a bedroom wing, and a porch was added in 1978; the house is occupied by the Tyler family.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.248427-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/32/7190/47719032/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/82003429.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719032","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oaklana","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18155287"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/bertie-county/oaklana-82003429/"}