{"nrhp_refnum":"84000546","name":"Hickory Hill","other_names":["Price-Everett House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NC 903","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hamilton","county":"Martin County","state":"NC","lat":35.94958897600006,"lon":-77.22075886882891,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-12-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Hickory Hill is a two-story frame plantation house with Greek Revival origins, located just north of the town of Hamilton in northwest Martin County, North Carolina. It was erected in the late 1840s by Simon Turner Price as the center of his plantation of about 950 acres.","why_significant":"The house is significant for the excellence of its craftsmanship and its elaborate Greek Revival finish. The nomination also cites its association with the development of antebellum plantation society in eastern North Carolina and with the local planters and businessmen who owned it. Its later Victorian porch and Colonial Revival interior refurbishments are presented as further examples of distinctive period work.","narrative":"Hickory Hill is a two-story frame house set on high brick piers atop a small hill just north of Hamilton in Martin County, North Carolina. Simon Turner Price built it in the late 1840s as the center of his plantation of about 950 acres. Its main section has a double-pile, center-hall plan, a low hipped roof of standing seam tin, and an entrance framed by Greek key pilasters that grow larger toward the outside. Later changes include a late nineteenth-century sawnwork porch, a Victorian wing, and Colonial Revival interior work from the early twentieth century, which added oak graining and an Eastlake filigree screen. The house is regarded as an exceptional example of Greek Revival craftsmanship in the area, and its ownership by planters and local businessmen links it to plantation society in eastern North Carolina before and after the Civil War.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Simon Turner Price (builder/owner); craftsman unknown","architectural_style":"Greek Revival with late nineteenth century Victorian and Colonial Revival details","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Altered; the house is occupied by the Everett family, who acquired it in 1917, and a smokehouse in the rear yard is deteriorated.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.483351-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/75/7211/47721175/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/84000546.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721175","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hickory_Hill_(Hamilton,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19462294"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/martin-county/hickory-hill-84000546/"}