{"nrhp_refnum":"82003469","name":"Vernon Place","other_names":["Cowper-Taylor House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"N of Como off US 258","address_restricted":false,"city":"Como","county":"Hertford County","state":"NC","lat":36.506888208500044,"lon":-77.00311138334489,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-04-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Vernon Place, also called the Cowper-Taylor House, is a two-story frame dwelling in transitional Federal to Greek Revival style located just east of the crossroads community of Como in Hertford County, North Carolina. It was built and named in the late 1820s by Richard Green Cowper.","why_significant":"The house is significant as a representative antebellum plantation dwelling reflecting the cotton-based prosperity of Hertford County and the stylistic shift from Federal to Greek Revival architecture. It is also associated with Richard Green Cowper, a large cotton planter and long-serving state politician, and briefly with lumber magnate Paul Douglas Camp. The surrounding outbuildings may yield information about nineteenth-century plantation life.","narrative":"Set about five hundred feet north of the highway, east of Como in Hertford County, Vernon Place is a two-story frame house with a T-shaped plan, begun in the late 1820s by planter Richard Green Cowper. Its central-hall interior, Greek Revival woodwork and brick chimneys mark the shift from Federal to Greek Revival taste in the region. Cowper, a major cotton producer who owned about seventy slaves by 1860, served as county sheriff for seventeen years and sat in the state senate several times. The house later passed to lumber magnate Paul Douglas Camp and then to the Taylor family in 1900, who added the Colonial Revival porch and mantels. Its surviving pecan-lined approach, magnolias and early twentieth-century outbuildings are cited as evidence of a prosperous nineteenth-century cotton plantation.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Transitional Federal to Greek Revival","criteria":["B","C","D"],"status_note":"Recently renovated and in good repair, remaining a working farm of about 108 acres.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:13:46.736794-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/31/7208/47720831/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/82003469.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720831","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Place","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18749724"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/hertford-county/vernon-place-82003469/"}