{"nrhp_refnum":"82003501","name":"Bullard-Ray House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"650 Washington St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Eden","county":"Rockingham County","state":"NC","lat":36.490434882000045,"lon":-79.76386210199996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-06-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame house on a sloping wooded lot in Eden (formerly Leaksville), Rockingham County, North Carolina. Its original sections date from a few years after the late 1830s and were remodeled and enlarged in the Colonial Revival style between 1908 and 1915.","why_significant":"The house is virtually the only domestic structure still standing that relates to the antebellum development of the Leaksville Cotton Mill. It is associated with John Hall Bullard, who managed the mill for John Motley Morehead and later became a successful merchant, and with his grandson John Bullard Ray, a prominent physician and civic leader. The nomination also presents it as a representative Greek Revival house whose early twentieth-century changes reflect local prosperity.","narrative":"Built a few years after the late 1830s, the two-story frame house on a sloping wooded lot in Eden was begun by John Hall Bullard, who had come from Massachusetts to manage John Motley Morehead's Leaksville Cotton Mill. Its original sections are Greek Revival, with a side hall plan, a centrally placed chimney, and a random stone foundation. Between 1908 and 1915 the physician John Bullard Ray, Bullard's grandson, remodeled and enlarged the house in the Colonial Revival style, adding a wrap-around porch with fluted Doric columns, a rear two-story wing, and a kitchen wing. The interior holds the most elaborate Colonial Revival work, including a fireplace with white tile inlay and a hall portal of fluted Ionic columns. It is the only surviving residence among the brick commercial buildings of the Washington Street district. Its importance rests on its antebellum link to North Carolina's early textile industry, through Bullard's management of the mill and his later merchant business, and on its record of early twentieth-century prosperity in Leaksville.","period_of_significance":"1835-1861","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival (original sections); Colonial Revival (remodeling, 1908-1915)","criteria":["A","B"],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.966167-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/99/7219/47721999/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/82003501.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721999","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullard-Ray_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19871682"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/rockingham-county/bullard-ray-house-82003501/"}