{"nrhp_refnum":"82003532","name":"Davis-Whitehead-Harriss House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"600 W. Nash St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Wilson","county":"Wilson County","state":"NC","lat":35.732461612000066,"lon":-77.91592515899998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-06-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame house with Italianate detailing on West Nash Street at the corner of Whitehead Avenue in Wilson, Wilson County, North Carolina. The 1858 core was remodeled in 1872 and later modified in the twentieth century.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is one of Wilson's oldest residences and one of the few surviving Victorian houses on Nash Street, formerly the town's finest residential street. It is associated with three successive owners who were leading merchants and a planter, and its Italianate design is credited to local builder Oswald Lipscomb, with the building regarded as representative of regional domestic Italianate architecture.","narrative":"Built in 1858 as a modest one-story house for merchant James W. Davis on a twenty-five acre tract outside Wilson, the property was enlarged and remodeled in 1872 into a two-story frame house with a robust Italianate form. Its features include a central projecting entrance pavilion, a hipped-roof porch on chamfered posts with ornate brackets, bulbous turned balusters, a curved staircase with a mahogany rail, and paired scroll brackets under the cornice. Local tradition credits builder Oswald Lipscomb with the design and remodeling. The house passed to Captain Howell Gray Whitehead, a planter and Confederate veteran, and then in 1891 to merchant William J. Harriss, whose family held it until 1979. It is regarded as one of the oldest houses in Wilson and as the last Italianate house remaining on Nash Street. Its wooded lot and mature trees also screen it from surrounding commercial development. Archeological remains on the grounds are considered likely.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":["A","B","C","D"],"status_note":"The house was sold in 1979 and the owners are restoring it; it is occupied by its owners in the nomination's account.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.601794-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/65/7228/47722865/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/82003532.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003532/13c299b4d1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003532/13c299b4d1-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Ammodramus","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Davis-Whitehead-Harriss_house_(Wilson_NC)_from_SW_1.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Ammodramus</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Davis-Whitehead-Harriss_house_(Wilson_NC)_from_SW_1.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722865","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis-Whitehead-Harriss_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20709309"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wilson-county/davis-whitehead-harriss-house-82003532/"}