{"nrhp_refnum":"82003491","name":"Bellamy-Philips House","other_names":["Oak Forest"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"SR 1522","address_restricted":false,"city":"Battleboro","county":"Nash County","state":"NC","lat":36.05420021900005,"lon":-77.78285260809822,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-07-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Oak Forest, also called the Bellamy-Philips House, is a plantation complex near Battleboro in Nash County, North Carolina. It includes an early house built in the mid-1820s and a Neo-Classical Revival house built in 1905, plus outbuildings and a cemetery.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that the complex holds two significant houses, one Federal-style and one Neo-Classical Revival, on a farm kept in single-family ownership for over a century. It is tied to the prominent Bellamy and Philips families and to the 1905 work of Rocky Mount contractor D. J. Rose. The site is also expected to yield information about nineteenth-century farm life.","narrative":"Oak Forest is a working plantation near Battleboro in Nash County, North Carolina, where two houses stand about 100 yards apart. The older one, called the Green House, was built in the mid-1820s for Reverend William Bellamy. It is a two-story frame house with a vernacular hall-and-parlor plan, Federal proportions and Georgian-derived detailing. The second house, completed in 1905 by Rocky Mount contractor D. J. Rose for Joseph Battle Philips, is a white frame Neo-Classical Revival dwelling with a slate pyramidal roof and a front porch with a circular Ionic portico. Philips was a legislator and a leading scientific farmer. Dr. James Jones Philips bought the land in 1863, and the family has owned it since, a rare century of single-family ownership in eastern North Carolina. A cemetery, office, smokehouse and necessary also survive. Together the buildings show how architectural taste and prosperity changed on one farm.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899, 1900-","architect_builder":"D.J. Rose, Contractor","architectural_style":"Federal (vernacular, with Georgian elements) and Neo-Classical Revival","criteria":["A","B","C","D"],"status_note":"The 1905 house is occupied as a private residence and the land is still a working farm. The older house has been unoccupied since about 1905, kept in good repair and used for storage.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:57.845869-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/72/7214/47721472/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/82003491.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721472","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellamy-Philips_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19460458"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/nash-county/bellamy-philips-house-82003491/"}