{"nrhp_refnum":"86000564","name":"Killett, Marcheston, Farm","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"SR 1222 N of US 701","address_restricted":false,"city":"Clinton","county":"Sampson County","state":"NC","lat":34.942195528500065,"lon":-78.33885326106184,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-03-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A late nineteenth-century frame farmhouse with a farmstead of outbuildings, located just south of Clinton in Sampson County, North Carolina. The house was built about 1865 by Marcheston Killett (1839-1909).","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a prime example of the locally popular gable-front porch form, given the most elaborate Victorian embellishment in the county while retaining Greek Revival elements. The farm is presented as one of the more complete surviving farmstead complexes in a county where few large farm complexes remain, and the site is judged likely to yield archaeological information about rural Sampson County.","narrative":"Built about 1865 by Marcheston Killett, who had moved to Sampson County from South Carolina, this one-story frame farmhouse south of Clinton combines a gable-front porch plan with Greek Revival pilasters and an unusually elaborate Victorian porch and interior. The center-hall, double-pile house has six-over-six windows, a diamond-shaped louvered vent in the front gable, and a front northeast room with heavy pilasters, dentiling and reeded mantel panels. A former one-room log kitchen, moved from a rear field, was incorporated into the rear ell. The farmstead keeps about nineteen contributing structures and sites, including a commissary, a ca. 1915 barn, a log tobacco barn, a crib and a grape arbor, shaded by oaks and a pecan orchard planted in the 1910s. The house is regarded as one of the finest surviving middle-class farmhouses of the period, and the farm is valued as a representative post-Civil War agricultural complex with potential archaeological remains.","period_of_significance":"1850-1900","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival with Victorian embellishment (gable-front porch form)","criteria":["A","C","D"],"status_note":"Vinyl siding covers the weatherboard and a poured cement porch floor replaced the original wood floor; outbuildings include a metal-sided barn and two new metal silos.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.261344-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/97/7183/47718397/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/86000564.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718397","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcheston_Killett_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19864456"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/sampson-county/killett-marcheston-farm-86000564/"}