{"nrhp_refnum":"88000418","name":"Wimbish, Lewis, Plantation","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"NC 1443","address_restricted":false,"city":"Grassy Creek","county":"Granville County","state":"NC","lat":36.52359941700004,"lon":-78.5886370018547,"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 former tobacco-era plantation complex near Grassy Creek in Granville County, North Carolina, centred on a Greek Revival plantation house on a rise, with outbuildings and a one-room former dwelling at its northwestern edge.","why_significant":"The house is regarded as one of the most finely finished and complete Greek Revival properties in Granville County, with a notable portico and marbleized interior woodwork. Together with the earlier overseer's house, the privy and the surrounding streams and fields, the property is said to evoke plantation life before the Civil War, and its outbuildings evoke a later bright leaf tobacco farm.","narrative":"Built around 1850 on a rise above Grassy Creek in Granville County, North Carolina, the plantation house is a two-story Greek Revival dwelling with a heavy timber frame, a T-plan and a portico of four fluted round columns and two fluted pilasters. Lewis Wimbish bought the 736-acre tract for $7,000 in 1850 and died a year later at 36, and the house is thought to be his. Its interior has a wide central hall, seven-panel doors with bull's-eye cornerblocks, and marbleized stairs and mantels. A plaster-walled privy, dating from before the Civil War, and several early twentieth-century tobacco-era outbuildings sit around the house. A one-room dwelling, locally called the overseer's house, predates the main house and keeps much of its original finish, including a cut stone chimney and a transitional Georgian/Federal mantel. The property is important mainly as an intact example of a larger plantation and later tobacco farm.","period_of_significance":"c. 1850-1937","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"The property has been used as a bright leaf tobacco farm within the past 50 years; the former overseer's house is described as vacant.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.458446-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/87/7178/47717887/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/88000418.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717887","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Wimbish_Plantation","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18711692"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/granville-county/wimbish-lewis-plantation-88000418/"}