{"nrhp_refnum":"85001554","name":"Meadowmont","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Off NC 54","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chapel Hill","county":"Durham County","state":"NC","lat":35.911199324500046,"lon":-79.00510851892852,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-07-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Commerce","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Meadowmont is a large two-and-a-half story Georgian Revival manor house with outbuildings, gardens and grounds on a 27.752-acre tract near Chapel Hill, in Durham County, North Carolina. The house was built in 1933 as the seat of a farming estate.","why_significant":"The surviving text emphasizes the house's architectural quality as a Georgian Revival country seat modeled on eighteenth-century Virginia and Maryland plantation houses. It was designed by Baltimore architects, with complete drawings and specifications surviving, and sits within a carefully composed landscape of gardens and farm buildings. The significance statement itself is truncated in the provided text.","narrative":"Meadowmont is a Georgian Revival manor house and farm seat set on a hilltop above the meadows of Little Creek, near Chapel Hill. Built in 1933 for David St. Pierre DuBose and his wife Valinda Hill, it replaced a late eighteenth or early nineteenth century house whose stone foundations remain nearby. The brick house, designed by the Baltimore architects Herbert Crisp and James Edmunds Jr., recalls the plantation houses of colonial Virginia and Maryland. Its west front has a two-story columned portico, while the east entrance copies the doorway of the Hammond-Harwood House in Annapolis. One-and-a-half story wings modeled on the Adam Thoroughgood House flank the main block. Interiors feature marble floors, paneled rooms and Federal Revival mantels. The 27.752-acre tract also holds a brick-walled garden, a vegetable garden with a smokehouse and pony house, a garage, stable, well house, poultry house, pool and tennis court, most contemporary with the house. Complete drawings and specifications survive.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Herbert G. Crisp & James R. Edmunds, Jr., known as the Office of Jos. Evans Sperry, Architects, Baltimore, Maryland; mechanical plans by Henry Adams, Inc., Consulting Engineers","architectural_style":"Georgian Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as occupied, in excellent condition, unaltered and on its original site; used as a private residence.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:49.428659-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/70/7200/47720070/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/85001554.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85001554/9bcaede4ce-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85001554/9bcaede4ce-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 2.0","author":"cvilletomorrow","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Meadowmont_Village.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">cvilletomorrow</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Meadowmont_Village.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720070","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meadowmont,_North_Carolina","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18155279"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/durham-county/meadowmont-85001554/"}