{"nrhp_refnum":"88001261","name":"Winston, Obediah, Farm","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"NC 1638","address_restricted":false,"city":"Creedmoor","county":"Granville County","state":"NC","lat":36.139548261000044,"lon":-78.66569094889076,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-08-31","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A roughly 38-acre tobacco farm district on State Road 1638 near Creedmoor, Granville County, North Carolina. It centers on a two-story Greek Revival dwelling built probably in the 1850s by Obediah and Permelia Bullock Winston, with a log outbuilding and other farm buildings.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is an intact, finely finished and unusually planned example of an antebellum Greek Revival dwelling in rural Granville County. The log outbuilding may be one of the few surviving slave houses in a county that was about half enslaved at the Civil War. The remaining outbuildings and fields illustrate life on a bright leaf tobacco farm through 1937.","narrative":"Obediah Winston Farm is a 38-acre tobacco farm along State Road 1638 near Creedmoor. Its centerpiece is a two-story, one-room-deep timber frame house with beaded weatherboards, built probably in the 1850s by Obediah and Permelia Bullock Winston. The Greek Revival finish includes octagonal porch columns, six-over-six windows, two-panel doors and post-and-lintel mantels. The plan is unusual for the county, which favored center-hall I-houses. East of the house stands a square-notched log building that was probably a slave house and may have served as a kitchen. Census records show the family's land value and slave holdings rising sharply between 1850 and 1860. Later outbuildings include a packhouse, tobacco barn, stable, smokehouse, potato house and tenant house, which reflect bright leaf tobacco farming after the Civil War. The farm stayed in the Winston family until 1962. A marker memorializes the family graves, now plowed under.","period_of_significance":"1850s-1937","architect_builder":"Unknown; the house is said by local tradition to have been built by Obediah Winston","architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The property continues as a single dwelling and working farm, rented to tenants who farm it and keep it in excellent condition.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:49.176772-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/92/7178/47717892/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/88001261.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717892","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obediah_Winston_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23073832"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/granville-county/winston-obediah-farm-88001261/"}