{"nrhp_refnum":"87001181","name":"Bradley-Latimer Summer House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"S side SR 1411 E of jct. with US 76","address_restricted":false,"city":"Wrightsville Beach","county":"New Hanover County","state":"NC","lat":34.21548537600006,"lon":-77.83070046499995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-07-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Entertainment/Recreation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, hipped-roof summer house with a one-story veranda on a knoll overlooking Bradley Creek in the vicinity of Airlie Gardens, New Hanover County, North Carolina. It was built circa 1855 by Richard Bradley, Jr., according to the form's tentative attribution.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a rare surviving example of the unpretentious, commodious summer houses built by wealthy Wilmington residents in the mid-nineteenth century. It is presented as an early survivor of a dwelling type with a central breezeway and wraparound porches. It is also associated with the development of the sounds as summer resorts and with families important in the region's social and commercial life.","narrative":"Built about 1855 on a knoll above Bradley Creek, among moss-draped oaks near Airlie Gardens, this two-story, hipped-roof summer house has three bays across and two deep, wrapped by a one-story veranda. Richard Bradley, Jr., a Wilmington lumber partner, is thought to have built it after inheriting the land from his mother's estate in 1854. Zebulon Latimer bought the house and nine acres in 1855 for $3,500, and the property stayed in the Latimer family for more than a century. Its original central breezeway, later enclosed, reflects the mid-nineteenth century shift of the sounds from salt production and lumbering to summer retreats for prominent Wilmington families. The house is regarded as an early surviving example of a rare, unpretentious type of coastal summer residence, with original crown glass sash, wide pine floors, and porch details. Its importance rests on that survival and on its link to the development of the sounds as summer resorts.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1855-1870","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Vernacular","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Condition checked as good; the house is altered and remains on its original site. Renovated in the 1970s.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.625636-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/48/7215/47721548/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/87001181.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001181/4c66345691-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001181/4c66345691-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Coreymchandler","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bradley_-_Latimer_Summer_House_close_up.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Coreymchandler</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bradley_-_Latimer_Summer_House_close_up.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721548","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley-Latimer_Summer_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19460637"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/new-hanover-county/bradley-latimer-summer-house-87001181/"}