{"nrhp_refnum":"84002310","name":"Roberts-Carter House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Off NC 37","address_restricted":false,"city":"Gatesville","county":"Gates County","state":"NC","lat":36.36140900700008,"lon":-76.71649744199993,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-03-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Historic - Aboriginal","Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame plantation house on the south side of SR 1100, northwest of Gatesville in Gates County, North Carolina, begun probably in the 1830s and enlarged around 1860, with a surviving smokehouse and a ca. 1900 kitchen.","why_significant":"The house shows a regional pattern of enlarging an earlier Federal/Greek Revival side-hall dwelling into a fashionable Greek Revival center-hall house with double-tier pedimented porticos. It was the seat of the Roberts family plantation, including Mills Roberts, the largest slave owner in Gates County's history. The site also has archaeological potential, including a prehistoric Chowanoke occupation and the location of an eighteenth-century house.","narrative":"Set among farm fields near Bennetts Creek in Gates County, this two-story frame house was the center of one of the largest plantations in North Carolina's Albemarle region. It began probably in the 1830s as a side-hall dwelling blending Federal and Greek Revival details, then was enlarged around 1860 into a five-bay, center-hall house with front and rear double-tier pedimented porticos. A frame smokehouse of heavy timber construction and a ca. 1900 kitchen remain nearby. The Roberts family owned the land from the 1760s to 1917. Mills Roberts, who ran the plantation through the Civil War era, held 111 enslaved people in 1860, the most of any slaveholder in the county's history. In 1917 the house and 500 acres passed to Hattie Carter, and the property stayed in her family. The site is also valued for archaeology, since it sits on a prehistoric Chowanoke settlement and once held an eighteenth-century house that collapsed in the mid-1970s.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal/Greek Revival transitional, enlarged in Greek Revival style","criteria":["A","B","C","D"],"status_note":"Listed as unoccupied and vacant; described as in a state of moderate disrepair, with the smokehouse deteriorating.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:49.087418-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/25/7204/47720425/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/84002310.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720425","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberts%E2%80%93Carter_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21187962"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/gates-county/roberts-carter-house-84002310/"}