{"nrhp_refnum":"82003434","name":"Rosefield","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"212 W. Gray St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Windsor","county":"Bertie County","state":"NC","lat":35.99203358200006,"lon":-76.94864471519567,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-08-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Rosefield is a two-story, L-plan frame plantation house at 212 West Gray Street in Windsor, Bertie County, North Carolina. It was built in three stages, beginning about 1786-1791, and sits on a remnant of land the Gray family has held since 1729.","why_significant":"The nomination presents Rosefield as an intact antebellum plantation home whose Georgian, Federal and Greek Revival trim shows the changing needs and tastes of the prosperous Gray family. It is tied to Stevens Gray and William Gray, and to an unusually long single-family ownership. A surviving 1786 building contract naming carpenter Gilbert Leigh is rare for eighteenth-century North Carolina.","narrative":"Rosefield is a two-story frame plantation house in Windsor, North Carolina, set on a slight rise with a wooded ravine below the front yard. It grew in three stages. The oldest three-bay section dates to about 1786-1791 and has Georgian woodwork and Flemish bond brickwork. A Federal-style addition followed soon after, and in about 1855 a Greek Revival rear wing and front porch were added. A 1786 contract between Stevens Gray and carpenter Gilbert Leigh closely matches the oldest part of the house, which is unusual documentation for an eighteenth-century North Carolina building. The property descends from a 1,000-acre tract bought by John Gray in 1729, and Gray descendants have kept the house tract ever since. Family members included William Gray, a provincial assemblyman, and Stevens Gray, clerk of the county court. A plantation office, dairy, a family cemetery and furnishings, paintings and silver gathered by the Gray and Gillam families remain, and the nomination notes likely archeological remains.","period_of_significance":"1700-1799, 1800-1899","architect_builder":"(Attributed) Gilbert Leigh","architectural_style":"Vernacular Georgian, Federal, and Greek Revival","criteria":["A","B","C","D"],"status_note":"Condition listed as excellent/good; the house was inherited by heirs after 1977 and is marked private residence and unoccupied.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:57.57644-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/47/7190/47719047/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/82003434.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003434/892d87b7eb-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003434/892d87b7eb-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rosefield_at_Windsor.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rosefield_at_Windsor.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719047","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosefield_(Windsor,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18157541"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/bertie-county/rosefield-82003434/"}