{"nrhp_refnum":"88000421","name":"Edgewood","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"NC 1437","address_restricted":false,"city":"Grassy Creek","county":"Granville County","state":"NC","lat":36.50772702900005,"lon":-78.63531027367634,"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":"Edgewood is a former plantation seat and later bright leaf tobacco farm near Grassy Creek in Granville County, North Carolina, built circa 1858. The roughly 8-acre district has a two-story Greek Revival house with Italianate brackets, a dozen outbuildings and cultivated fields.","why_significant":"The nomination argues Edgewood represents both the plantation-era estates and the bright leaf tobacco farms that replaced them after the Civil War. The house is a fine local example of Greek Revival, and one of few surviving double-pile, two-story houses in the county. Its Italianate roof brackets are rare for the plantation era. The property also keeps an unusually large group of plantation-era and bright leaf outbuildings.","narrative":"Edgewood is a mid-nineteenth-century plantation seat in Granville County, North Carolina, surrounded by cultivated fields and a dozen log and frame outbuildings. Samuel and Martha Venable Morton built the two-story, double-pile house around 1858 on land given by Martha's father. It is a mortised and tenoned frame box on a handmade brick foundation, covered in weatherboards, with a low hipped roof, crossetted window surrounds and a center-hall plan. Bracketed eaves bring an uncommon Italianate touch to an otherwise Greek Revival design, and the interior keeps its original mantels, fluted cornerblock door surrounds and an unusual rear stair hall. After the Civil War the property operated as a bright leaf tobacco farm, and early twentieth-century log and frame stables, corn cribs, chicken houses, a brooder house, an ice house and a tenant house survive. The district was recognized for architecture and agriculture, with a period of significance from about 1858 to 1937.","period_of_significance":"circa 1858 to 1937","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival; Italianate","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Described as handsomely finished, intact and in good condition; still in use as a dwelling and farm, with tobacco farming continued into the 1950s.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:49.452083-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/0/7179/47717900/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/88000421.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717900","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgewood_(Grassy_Creek,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18711558"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/granville-county/edgewood-88000421/"}