{"nrhp_refnum":"88000405","name":"Peace, John, Jr., House","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"NC 1627","address_restricted":false,"city":"Wilton","county":"Granville County","state":"NC","lat":36.15270476550006,"lon":-78.5187620684612,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-04-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-and-a-loft, three-bay, weatherboarded house with a massive double-shouldered stone chimney on a hill in Granville County, North Carolina, probably built in 1801 according to a carved date on the chimney. It has a family cemetery just south of the chimney.","why_significant":"The house is described as one of the county's oldest and most unusually configured properties, with a plan, shape and chimney that differ from common local dwellings. It is also presented as a rare early surviving example of a modest planter's house, with its period tied to the plantation era ending in 1865.","narrative":"Set on a stone-crowned hill in Granville County, North Carolina, this one-and-a-loft house is three bays wide and unusually narrow and deep for the area. Its steeply pitched roof sweeps down over a shed room and a front porch, a form linked to eighteenth and nineteenth century dwellings of the eastern Piedmont and coastal plain. The most striking feature is the broad, double-shouldered chimney, built of local gray rock, which is carved with the legend Thomas Collier 1801. The interior has a two-room-deep plan with no hall, a boxed stair, angled corner hearths and flush-sheathed wainscoting with six-panel doors. The house is significant as one of the county's oldest and most unusual dwellings and as an early surviving example of a modest planter's home. Josiah Peace owned six slaves in 1840, according to the census, and a family cemetery with Jenkins, Holmes and Strother markers lies nearby.","period_of_significance":"circa 1801-1865","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Georgian; transitional Georgian/Federal","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.430898-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/70/7178/47717870/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/88000405.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717870","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Peace_Jr._House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19987481"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/granville-county/peace-john-jr-house-88000405/"}