{"nrhp_refnum":"83001876","name":"Holt, Dr. William Rainey, House","other_names":["The Homestead"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"408 S. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lexington","county":"Davidson County","state":"NC","lat":35.820962019000035,"lon":-80.25719525099998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-06-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story Greek Revival frame house known as The Homestead at 408 South Main Street in Lexington, Davidson County, North Carolina, built in 1834 for physician and planter Dr. William Rainey Holt.","why_significant":"The house is one of two surviving antebellum houses in Lexington and has unusually sophisticated Greek Revival detailing. It is also tied to Dr. Holt, a physician and founder and long-time president of the North Carolina Agricultural Society, who ran Linwood, one of the state's model scientific farms.","narrative":"Built in 1834 on South Main Street in Lexington, the Dr. William Rainey Holt House, called The Homestead, is a three-bay, two-story, hip-roof frame dwelling with a center-hall plan. It is one of two antebellum houses surviving in the town. Its Greek Revival details include Palladian windows, fluted Ionic columns at the entrance, Doric corner pilasters, a modillion cornice and leaded stained glass. Later changes include Victorian bay windows around 1892, a Colonial Revival porch around 1900 and a one-story rear addition in 1949. Holt was a Jefferson Medical College graduate and a leading Lexington physician. He also ran Linwood, a plantation that became one of the state's model scientific farms, and he served as president of the North Carolina Agricultural Society from 1860 to 1868. During the Civil War, Union General Kilpatrick used the house as a regimental headquarters for two months. Holt's descendants have kept the house, and it remains in excellent repair.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Unknown (family tradition says a Charleston architect; the name is lost)","architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Described as in excellent condition and in excellent repair; occupied as a private residence and still owned by Holt's descendants at the time of the form.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:58.481288-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/24/7199/47719924/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/83001876.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001876/cca1bfa646-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001876/cca1bfa646-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Kenneth C. Zirkel","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_R._Holt_Homestead,_Lexington,_North_Carolina.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Kenneth C. Zirkel</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_R._Holt_Homestead,_Lexington,_North_Carolina.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719924","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._William_Rainey_Holt_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18352542"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/davidson-county/holt-dr-william-rainey-house-83001876/"}