{"nrhp_refnum":"86000570","name":"Murphy-Lamb House and Cemetery","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"SR 1135 S of US 701","address_restricted":false,"city":"Garland","county":"Sampson County","state":"NC","lat":34.79639633350004,"lon":-78.3596879119992,"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 Federal two-story farmhouse with two family cemeteries on a 288.5-acre farm near Garland in western Sampson County, North Carolina, built about 1835 for Archibald Murphy.","why_significant":"The house is described as one of two distinguished late Federal houses in rural Sampson County, identical in form to the 1840 Samuel Johnson House, with some of the county's finest carved mantels. Its Big Coharie Creek frontage and two burial sites represent pre-Civil War plantation development. It also has a long association with the locally prominent Lamb family.","narrative":"Near Garland in western Sampson County stands a two-story, single-pile Federal farmhouse built about 1835 for Archibald Murphy. It has a five-bay facade, an engaged front porch, rear shed rooms, and brick end chimneys, and it sits on a shaded knoll above cleared fields and the Big Coharie Creek. Inside, two large carved Federal mantels are counted among the most elaborate in the county. Murphy left after his wife and son died in the 1840s, and James H. Lamb, a leading planter, acquired the property in the 1850s. He gave the house to his son Allen in 1870, and the Lamb family kept it for generations. The farm includes the Lamb family cemetery, two Murphy gravestones moved from their original cemetery, and plain outbuildings. The property was recognized as a fine example of late Federal architecture and as a representative of antebellum plantation development along the creek.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Unknown (built about 1835 for Archibald Murphy)","architectural_style":"Late Federal","criteria":["A","C","D"],"status_note":"The house is stated to be unoccupied; condition is marked good and the 1980s survey says the photograph accurately depicts its condition. A ca. 1910 cabin on the property was being renovated as a retreat.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:51.344174-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/29/7184/47718429/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/86000570.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718429","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy-Lamb_House_and_Cemetery","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19987247"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/sampson-county/murphy-lamb-house-and-cemetery-86000570/"}