{"nrhp_refnum":"83004004","name":"Williams, Olzie Whitehead, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"SR 1332","address_restricted":false,"city":"Wilson","county":"Wilson County","state":"NC","lat":35.78953517300005,"lon":-77.91867409799994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-12-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A single-story, six-bay frame house in an L-shaped plan with Italianate-inspired wooden detailing, located on Lake Wilson Road outside the city limits of Wilson, Wilson County, North Carolina. It was moved to this rural site in 1981 from a downtown Nash Street location.","why_significant":"The house is argued to be an unusually complete survivor of the richly decorated, mass-produced Italianate cottage of the mid and late nineteenth century, retaining its porch, bracket cornice and canopy. It is also linked to the early history of the town of Wilson and to the Williams family, who owned it for roughly a century. The nomination presents its architectural character as significant within both the town and county context despite the move.","narrative":"Built around 1860 in Wilson, the house is a single-story frame cottage in an L-shaped plan, with a veranda carried on chamfered posts, bracketed eaves, and an Italianate canopy over the main window decorated with sawn fleur-de-lis motifs. Its exterior decoration is considered unusually complete for a small house of the period, reflecting the spread of mass-produced wooden ornament in the decades after the Civil War. Olzie Whitehead Williams, a widow who ran a millinery shop, owned the land from 1863, and her son Latimer Williams enlarged the house in the early 1870s. The Williams family kept it until 1980, when it was offered for removal because of development pressure. It was moved in 1981 to a site outside the city limits, where the new owners undertook a renovation.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Moved from its original site in 1981 and renovated by its owners; the document states the house was moved and altered.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:40.897469-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/67/7228/47722867/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/83004004.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83004004/cd6636c0d3-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83004004/cd6636c0d3-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"SteveoMo","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Olzie%E2%80%99s_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">SteveoMo</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:Olzie%E2%80%99s_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722867","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olzie_Whitehead_Williams_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23074040"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wilson-county/williams-olzie-whitehead-house-83004004/"}