{"nrhp_refnum":"86001627","name":"Sloan, Dr. Earl S., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"3701 Country Club Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Trent Woods","county":"Craven County","state":"NC","lat":35.08177352800004,"lon":-77.08237538899994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-08-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Entertainment/Recreation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two and a half-story brick winter residence on the north bank of the Trent River in Trent Woods, near New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina, built in 1914 for Dr. Earl S. Sloan.","why_significant":"The house is a well-crafted Colonial Revival residence with Mediterranean and Tudor Revival influences, designed by New Bern native architect Robert F. Smallwood. It represents the practice of wealthy northerners building second homes in North Carolina and is one of the more substantial residences erected in eastern North Carolina in the 1910s.","narrative":"Overlooking the Trent River just outside New Bern, this two and a half-story brick house was built in 1914 as a winter home for Dr. Earl S. Sloan, maker of Sloan's Liniment. Architect Robert F. Smallwood, a New Bern native with a New York practice, gave it a U-shaped plan, low slate hipped roofs, deep bracketed eaves and a river-facing solarium with arched openings. Dark red and black tapestry brick laid in Flemish bond covers the walls, and the interior combines Colonial Revival and Tudor Revival woodwork, beamed ceilings and polychrome glazed tile. The house reflects the practice of wealthy northerners building seasonal residences in North Carolina's mountains, coastal plain and sandhills. Later it served as the Trent Pines Club, a supper club, from 1942 into the 1960s, and afterward sat vacant for long periods. Its importance rests on its link to that resort tradition, its connection to Smallwood, and its standing as one of eastern North Carolina's more substantial early twentieth-century houses.","period_of_significance":"1900- (specific date 1914)","architect_builder":"Robert F. Smallwood (architect); John F. Rhodes (local contractor supervising construction)","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival with Mediterranean and Tudor Revival influences","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Altered inside during use as a dinner club but substantially intact; restoration under way, and a caretaker lives in the house. The house had been vacant for much of the preceding eighteen years.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:49.257687-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/68/7197/47719768/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/86001627.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001627/c7dd91dd8c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001627/c7dd91dd8c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Cecouchman","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SloanHouse_5530.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Cecouchman</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SloanHouse_5530.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719768","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Earl_S._Sloan_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18149506"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/craven-county/sloan-dr-earl-s-house-86001627/"}