{"nrhp_refnum":"87002013","name":"Carr, Titus W., House","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"SR 1244","address_restricted":false,"city":"Walstonburg","county":"Greene County","state":"NC","lat":35.53737705700004,"lon":-77.67907672780225,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-11-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A rural plantation house and its farm outbuildings on a 13.64-acre home tract near Walstonburg in Greene County, North Carolina. It is a two-story, double-pile frame house in a Greek Revival/Italianate transitional style, built within about five years after the Civil War for planter Titus W. Carr.","why_significant":"The house represents the post-Civil War rural farming economy of Greene County, when large plantations broke up and tenancy and sharecropping spread. It is also an unusually intact, high-quality example of Greek Revival/Italianate design. The late use of the style is cited as a sign of rural conservatism, and it is described as one of the finest surviving houses in the county from the last three decades of the 19th century.","narrative":"Set on level farmland near Walstonburg in Greene County, this two-story frame house was built within about five years after the Civil War for Titus W. Carr, a planter, merchant and county commissioner. Its form is Greek Revival, while scroll-sawn brackets, a trellised front porch and drillwork moldings add Italianate touches. Inside, a center hall opens onto four rooms on each floor, with period mantels and a handsome open-string stair. A cedar-lined drive leads to the house, and surviving outbuildings include a former kitchen, smokehouses, barns and a probable gin house. The property matters for two reasons. It reflects the shift from large slave-worked plantations to smaller farms, tenants and sharecroppers after the war, and Carr's farm grew cotton and corn with hired labor. It is also considered one of the finest late 19th-century houses surviving in the county, with little change since the early 1900s. Restoration by its current owners is under way.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1870-1903","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival; Italianate","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Occupied only intermittently from 1918 until early 1986; the present owners are restoring and rehabilitating the house, and the form lists a current function of vacant/not in use.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:49.818497-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/57/7204/47720457/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/87002013.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720457","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titus_W._Carr_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19460861"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/greene-county/carr-titus-w-house-87002013/"}