{"nrhp_refnum":"86000573","name":"Owen Family House and Cemetery","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"SR 1212 N of SR 1214","address_restricted":false,"city":"McDaniels","county":"Sampson County","state":"NC","lat":34.89849702300006,"lon":-78.45069808443178,"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 rural farm property near McDaniels in central Sampson County, North Carolina, with three houses of different ages (a one-room log house, an early-19th-century coastal cottage and a mid-19th-century Greek Revival block), a Flemish bond brick potato house and the Owen family cemetery. The nominated tract is about 400 acres.","why_significant":"The three houses together show the successive forms of middle-level rural domestic architecture in Sampson County during the first half of the 19th century. The Flemish bond brick potato house is described as the most significant outbuilding in the county, and Flemish bond is rare there. The property is also tied to the county's agricultural life from about 1800 to the mid-19th century.","narrative":"This farm in central Sampson County, near McDaniels, holds three houses built at different times, a brick potato house and a family cemetery. The oldest house is a one-room log dwelling from around 1800, now covered in weatherboarding and moved to the southeast side of the house lot. Behind the main house is a large early-19th-century coastal cottage with Flemish bond brick chimney, wide beaded board walls and a segmentally arched firebox. In front of it, Edmund B. Owen added a one-story Greek Revival block around 1850, with a gable-front porch, Doric pillars and a notable eight-panel door. Together the houses show how middle-level farmhouses changed in the county during the first half of the 19th century. The Flemish bond potato house is a rare surviving brick outbuilding. The cemetery holds about fifteen marked graves, including those of Rev. John Owen and his family. Owen amassed more than 1,200 acres, of which about 400 are nominated. The main house has long been rented to farm tenants.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival, Federal and coastal cottage forms","criteria":["A","C","D"],"status_note":"Condition is rated fair. The main house is maintained for farm tenants. The log house has suffered from neglect, vandalism and salvage.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:50.093398-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/95/7183/47718395/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/86000573.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718395","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Family_House_and_Cemetery","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19987435"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/sampson-county/owen-family-house-and-cemetery-86000573/"}