{"nrhp_refnum":"86001912","name":"Browne, Mary Ann, House","other_names":["Oakley","Oakley Grove","Faulcon--Browne House","Browne,Dr. LaFayet"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NC 1530","address_restricted":false,"city":"Vaughan","county":"Warren County","state":"NC","lat":36.414323050000064,"lon":-77.98671138099996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-07-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-part frame plantation house near Vaughan in eastern Warren County, North Carolina, with an Italianate-Gothic Revival main block built in the late 1850s and a Federal-style rear wing built around 1800.","why_significant":"The house is presented as a stylish but not ostentatious example of the Italianate and Gothic styles and 1850s eclecticism among fashion-conscious tobacco planters of the North Carolina piedmont. Its main block is attributed to Warrenton builder Jacob W. Holt and was built for the widow Mary Ann Browne. It reflects the wealth of the antebellum tobacco economy, which relied on enslaved labor.","narrative":"Near Vaughan in eastern Warren County, North Carolina, this frame plantation house grew in two stages. The rear wing, a story-and-a-half Federal-style building, dates to around 1800 and was probably built by John Faulcon. His daughter Mary Ann inherited it and lived there with her husband, Dr. LaFayette Browne, a physician and tobacco planter who died in 1841. In the late 1850s the widowed Mary Ann added a two-story Italianate-Gothic block to the front. It is attributed to Warrenton builder Jacob W. Holt. The block has a low hipped roof, heavy brackets, molded corner pilasters, and paired windows with Tudor-arched sash. Both families built their wealth on land and on enslaved labor, which produced tobacco, and Warren County was among the state's leading tobacco counties by 1860. The house is regarded as a fashionable but restrained expression of that prosperity. It became rental property in the twentieth century and was donated in 1982 to be sold for restoration.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"attrib. to Jacob W. Holt","architectural_style":"Italianate-Gothic Revival main block with Federal-style rear wing","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Listed as unoccupied and unaltered on the original site. A deteriorated outbuilding is noted, and the house was sold for restoration in 1985.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:51.313435-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/16/7227/47722716/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/86001912.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722716","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ann_Browne_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20708576"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/warren-county/browne-mary-ann-house-86001912/"}