{"nrhp_refnum":"86000578","name":"Royal-Crumpler-Parker House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"512 Sunset Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Clinton","county":"Sampson County","state":"NC","lat":34.997695693000026,"lon":-78.33147764699999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-03-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story frame Bungalow-style house at 512 Sunset Avenue in Clinton, Sampson County, North Carolina, built about 1918 by local contractor Hardy Royal as his own residence.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it the finest and most intact Bungalow-style house in Clinton and Sampson County. It reflects Clinton's growth from 1910 to the late 1920s, when new neighborhoods such as Sunset Avenue opened. It is also described as one of the earliest and finest examples of the style in a town with many 1910s and 1920s Bungalows.","narrative":"Built around 1918 on Sunset Avenue in Clinton, this one-story frame house is considered the finest and most intact Bungalow in Clinton and Sampson County. Local contractor Hardy Royal built it as his own home but lost it to financial reverses in the 1920s. Edward L. Crumpler, a farmer and later Clinton businessman, bought it in 1923 or 1924, and it passed to his son, a Rocky Mount physician, who sold it in 1955. The house has a broad front gable, a wraparound porch with curved posts on tall brick pedestals, shingled gables with large brackets, and windows with diamond-paned upper sashes. An octagonal greenhouse sits at one end of the porch. Inside are a beamed ceiling in the front parlor and simple woodwork. It was built as Clinton expanded between 1910 and the late 1920s, and it shows what the Bungalow style could achieve in middle and upper level housing.","period_of_significance":"ca 1918","architect_builder":"Hardy Royal","architectural_style":"Bungalow","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Described as in excellent condition and occupied as a private residence.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:49.068938-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/15/7184/47718415/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/86000578.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86000578/d809a41d26-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86000578/d809a41d26-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Royal-Crumpler-Parker_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Royal-Crumpler-Parker_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718415","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%E2%80%93Crumpler%E2%80%93Parker_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24041339"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/sampson-county/royal-crumpler-parker-house-86000578/"}