{"nrhp_refnum":"85000875","name":"Sandy Point","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Off NC 32 East of NC 1114","address_restricted":false,"city":"Edenton","county":"Chowan County","state":"NC","lat":36.01076844100007,"lon":-76.52040597113808,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-04-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-a-half-story weatherboarded frame plantation house with a double-tier porch, on Sandy Point Beach on the Albemarle Sound near Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, probably built ca. 1810 and enlarged in the 1830s-1840s.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that Sandy Point represents the large plantation houses built in the Albemarle Sound region in the first half of the nineteenth century, mixing late Georgian, Federal and Greek Revival details. It is tied to the antebellum plantation society of the area and to planter Thomas Benbury, Jr. The nomination also states it is likely to yield information about nineteenth-century plantation life.","narrative":"Sandy Point is a weatherboarded frame plantation house standing alone on the flat shore of the Albemarle Sound near Edenton. It rises two stories plus an attic and has a two-tiered porch across its south front, a feature typical of the Albemarle region. James Sutton probably built the original side-hall house around 1810. In the 1830s and 1840s Thomas Benbury, Jr., a wealthy planter from one of Chowan County's oldest families, enlarged it into a center-hall dwelling with Greek Revival details. The western two-thirds remains Federal in style, and the interior shows late Georgian, Federal and Greek Revival mantels and trim. Surrounding buildings include a possible original kitchen, a smokehouse, twentieth-century farm buildings and four abandoned tenant houses, reflecting the shift from plantation to modern farm. The property is significant for its architecture, its link to Benbury, and its record of plantation society and its postwar decline. It has remained in the Wood family since 1892.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Builder unknown; probably built by James Sutton; enlarged by Thomas Benbury, Jr.","architectural_style":"Federal and Greek Revival, with late Georgian and transitional details","criteria":["A","B","C","D"],"status_note":"Listed as in good condition, altered, and occupied as a private residence on a working farm; the old kitchen is severely dilapidated and four tenant houses are abandoned.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:49.230076-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/91/7195/47719591/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/85000875.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85000875/77705ebabf-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85000875/77705ebabf-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Thomas T. Waterman","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sandy_Point_Plantation,_Sound_Shore_Road,_Edenton_vicinity_(Chowan_County,_North_Carolina).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Thomas T. Waterman</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sandy_Point_Plantation,_Sound_Shore_Road,_Edenton_vicinity_(Chowan_County,_North_Carolina).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719591","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Point_(Edenton,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18354670"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/chowan-county/sandy-point-85000875/"}