{"nrhp_refnum":"88000420","name":"Hart, Maurice, House","other_names":["Rock-a-way"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"NC 1430","address_restricted":false,"city":"Stovall","county":"Granville County","state":"NC","lat":36.449329996000074,"lon":-78.57626043699997,"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 Greek Revival style dwelling raised on a full brick basement at the edge of Stovall in Granville County, North Carolina. It is a three-bay, one-room-deep house with a low hipped roof and exterior brick end chimneys.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is one of the county's most intact and finely finished plantation era Greek Revival dwellings, with unusual interior woodwork including fanciful surrounds and mantels. It is presented as a representative survivor of the small town communities of the plantation era, the house being one of few intact structures from that period raised in a small town other than Oxford.","narrative":"Greek Revival dwelling raised on a finished brick basement at the edge of Stovall, the former Sassafras Fork in Granville County, North Carolina. Three bays wide and one room deep, it has a low hipped roof, exterior brick end chimneys, and nine-over-nine and six-over-six windows set in entablature-topped surrounds. Its interior retains a paneled stair with turned newels and urn-topped balusters, seven-panel doors, and mantels with applied tapered posts. The parlor surround and mantel are the most unusual features, with applied boards winding up the posts and a crossetted lintel. The house is associated with Maurice Hart, who is thought to have built it around 1840 and was listed in the 1850 census as a 38-year-old farmer. Later owner Dr. Adam C. Harris, a physician, occupied it in the 1850s and 1860s. It is significant as a surviving small-town example of the plantation era and for its intact finish work.","period_of_significance":"1840s-1865","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Excellent condition; restored by present owners, with a rear addition in the early 1960s and a carport added later.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.6043-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/89/7178/47717889/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/88000420.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717889","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Hart_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18711577"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/granville-county/hart-maurice-house-88000420/"}