{"nrhp_refnum":"86000157","name":"Bunn, Bennett, Plantation","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NC 97","address_restricted":false,"city":"Zebulon","county":"Wake County","state":"NC","lat":35.83785846650005,"lon":-78.28260171707794,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-02-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Federal-style farmhouse built in 1833 with a cluster of earlier and later outbuildings on a 181.5-acre farm near Zebulon in eastern Wake County, North Carolina. It was built by Bennett Bunn on land his father Benjamin Bunn acquired in the late 1700s.","why_significant":"The farm is an intact collection of 1830s and later farm buildings around the 1833 house, showing rural Piedmont farming from the late 18th to the mid-20th century. The house keeps its original interior trim, including paneled overmantels, an enclosed stair and a distinctive hinged door. The family has held the land since the 1780s and kept deeds, maps and records. The reviewer accepted the property under Criteria A and C only.","narrative":"Bennett Bunn built this Federal-style farmhouse in 1833 near Zebulon in eastern Wake County, North Carolina. It sits at the center of a 181.5-acre farm that has stayed in the Bunn family since the 1780s, when Benjamin Bunn acquired the land. The weatherboarded house keeps its original two-room plan, flush-board walls, molded mantels with paneled overmantels and an enclosed stair. A board-and-batten door is hinged so it can close off either the stair or the unheated rear rooms. Around the house stand a ca. 1790 log house, two log barns, a dairy, a smokehouse, animal shelters, four early twentieth-century tobacco barns, a late nineteenth-century store, two cemeteries, a slave cemetery site and the dam of an early mill breached in an 1848 flood. Together with family deeds, maps and records, these buildings document a working farm from the late eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century, which is why the property was recognized for its agricultural history and architecture.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Unknown (built by Bennett Bunn, according to the narrative)","architectural_style":"Federal","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Listed as occupied, in excellent condition and used as a private residence and for agriculture; about 45 acres are rented and planted in tobacco, soybeans and corn.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:49.01852-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/53/7224/47722453/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/86000157.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86000157/10afbb58e8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86000157/10afbb58e8-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Matheny.michelle","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bennett_Bunn_Plantation.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Matheny.michelle</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bennett_Bunn_Plantation.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722453","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bennett_Bunn_Plantation","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4889672"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wake-county/bunn-bennett-plantation-86000157/"}