{"nrhp_refnum":"88000057","name":"Southerland-Burnette House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"201 N. Chesnut St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Mount Olive","county":"Wayne County","state":"NC","lat":35.19769010400006,"lon":-78.06739301199997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-02-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame Classical Revival house at 201 North Chestnut Street in Mount Olive, Wayne County, North Carolina, with a garage/servants' quarters and brick wall. A portion dates to about 1874, but the present house results from a remodeling for Benjamin W. Southerland about 1924.","why_significant":"The house is argued to be an unusually well-integrated and classically pure example of 1920s Classical Revival architecture, more restrained than earlier columned houses in Mount Olive. It also expresses small-town affluence after World War I, built by the locally prominent Southerland family, whose fortunes collapsed in the Depression.","narrative":"Located at 201 North Chestnut Street in Mount Olive, this frame house began as a two-story Greek Revival dwelling built about 1874 for Joseph A. Shine. Around 1924, Benjamin W. Southerland had it remodeled so thoroughly that it amounted to a rebuilding, giving it a two-story portico with four fluted Tuscan columns, deep pedimented gables with modillions and demi-lunettes, and a center-hall plan. A brick wall and a two-story garage with servants' quarters survive from the same period. The house is notable as a graceful, classically pure example of 1920s Classical Revival design, simpler than earlier columned houses in town. It also reflects the wealth of the Southerland family, who built their fortune in merchandising, farming, a large livery stable and real estate development. The Great Depression ended their ownership when the house was sold at auction in 1937. The Burnette family lived there from 1938 until 1987, making only minor changes.","period_of_significance":"1924-1937","architect_builder":"Unknown (architect of the 1924 remodeling unknown)","architectural_style":"Classical Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"After the 1987 death of Esther H. Burnette the house passed to Mount Olive College and was being prepared as a residence for the college president.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:50.167653-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/4/7228/47722804/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/88000057.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88000057/497f76bb9f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88000057/497f76bb9f-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Quincy Morgan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Southerland-Burnette_House_front_close.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Quincy Morgan</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Southerland-Burnette_House_front_close.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"99000639","name":"Mount Olive Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/mount-olive-historic-district-99000639/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722804","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southerland-Burnette_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20679837"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wayne-county/southerland-burnette-house-88000057/"}