{"nrhp_refnum":"86000574","name":"Pigford House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"SR 1751 S of US 701","address_restricted":false,"city":"Clinton","county":"Sampson County","state":"NC","lat":35.04460383800006,"lon":-78.32445012899996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-03-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story, center-hall Greek Revival frame house in Clinton, Sampson County, North Carolina, believed to have been built about 1850. It is noted for its board-and-batten siding, uncommon in the county where weatherboard was the norm.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is one of the county's finest surviving examples of the bold gable front porch form of the Greek Revival, popular in Sampson County from about 1850 to 1900. Its board-and-batten siding is described as rare locally, and it is presented as the county's only significant surviving board-and-batten dwelling. It is also said to be a representative nineteenth-century family farm house.","narrative":"Built about 1850 near the county seat of Clinton, this one-story, center-hall frame house is a vernacular Greek Revival dwelling with a center gable front porch carried on Doric-style pillars and pilasters. Its board-and-batten siding is unusual in Sampson County, where weatherboard was the common finish, and it is considered the only significant board-and-batten dwelling of its kind surviving in the county. Local tradition links the site to Maryborough, the plantation of James Sampson, nephew of Col. John Sampson, for whom the county was named. The house was associated with the Pigford family, who farmed the land in the late nineteenth century, and it was sold to William Sampson in 1909. Its significance rests on its rare siding, its well-preserved porch form, and its typical place in the county's farm-based history.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1850","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":["A","C","D"],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.686265-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/35/7184/47718435/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/86000574.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718435","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigford_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19987551"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/sampson-county/pigford-house-86000574/"}