{"nrhp_refnum":"84000803","name":"Newsome, James, House","other_names":["Wynnewood"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NC 11 at jct. NC 42","address_restricted":false,"city":"Ahoskie","county":"Hertford County","state":"NC","lat":36.279747975500044,"lon":-77.0561170520807,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-12-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Wynnewood, also called the James Newsome House, is a two-story, three-bay late Federal-style frame plantation house on a slight rise at the junction of NC 11 and NC 42 near Ahoskie, Hertford County, North Carolina. It was probably built in the 1820s or early 1830s, with several antebellum outbuildings nearby.","why_significant":"The house represents the unpretentious but substantial frame plantation dwellings of eastern North Carolina in the early nineteenth century. It was the home of James Eley Newsome, a planter with fifteen slaves and over 1,000 acres. It shares architectural features, especially mantels, with neighboring houses that family tradition attributes to free black carpenter Drew Hollomon.","narrative":"Wynnewood is a two-story, three-bay frame house in rural Hertford County, North Carolina, built in the late Federal style on a rise overlooking the junction of NC 11 and NC 42. It was probably built in the 1820s or early 1830s for James Eley Newsome, a small planter who held fifteen slaves and more than 1,000 acres by 1860. The interior keeps a hall-and-parlor plan, fielded-panel wainscot and mantels with early Greek Revival cornerblocks. Similar mantels appear in nearby houses, including the Mitchell-Gordon House, and local family tradition credits these houses to Drew Hollomon, a free black carpenter. Several antebellum outbuildings survive, among them a former slave cabin, a smokehouse, a barn and two small frame buildings that served as an office and extra sleeping quarters. The house passed through Newsome's daughter and later descendants, and a restoration between 1974 and 1978 preserved it as an example of a prosperous planter's farm complex in antebellum eastern North Carolina.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Attributed to Drew Hollomon","architectural_style":"Late Federal","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Excellent condition, occupied as a private residence; restored 1974-1978 by the present owner, with a former slave cabin returned to its place beside the house.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:48.578263-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/29/7208/47720829/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/84000803.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720829","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Newsome_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18749720"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/hertford-county/newsome-james-house-84000803/"}