{"nrhp_refnum":"88001263","name":"Paschall-Daniel House","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"712 Raleigh St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Oxford","county":"Granville County","state":"NC","lat":null,"lon":null,"geom_source":null},"listed_date":"1992-06-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, T-plan Greek Revival house in Oxford, Granville County, North Carolina, with outbuildings on its grounds. It is believed to have been built by Dr. Zebulon M. Paschall between 1852 and 1858 on what was then the main road from Oxford to Raleigh.","why_significant":"The house is argued to be one of the most intact and striking Greek Revival examples in Oxford, retaining nearly all its original interior and exterior finish. Its rare octagonal chimney pots reflect a Gothic Revival influence unusual for antebellum county residences. The surviving outbuildings, tied to a mid-twentieth-century dairy operation, are presented as evidence of rural life in a small town during the bright leaf tobacco era.","narrative":"Built in the 1850s as a two-story, T-plan residence south of Oxford, the Paschall-Daniel House is a Greek Revival dwelling of timber framing sheathed in beaded weatherboards. Dr. Zebulon M. Paschall is believed to have raised it between 1852 and 1858. Its front porch has six octagonal columns, and its twelve-over-twelve front windows open to the porch almost like doors. Inside, the rooms are ranked by importance through fluted surrounds, crossetted mantels and wainscoting, with the finest detailing in the front parlors. Its paired and triple octagonal chimney pots are a rare antebellum Gothic Revival touch in the county. Later owners included a professor and grocery merchant G. Norman Daniel, who kept dairy cattle here. Eight outbuildings, including a milking barn and log tobacco barn, still stand behind the house, illustrating small-town rural life into the early twentieth century.","period_of_significance":"1850s-1937","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Now within Oxford's bounds; the house remains in the Daniel family line and is held in an estate after 1987, with outbuildings and fields still standing.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:40.889652-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/88001263_update2025.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717894","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paschall%E2%80%93Daniel_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18711632"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/granville-county/paschall-daniel-house-88001263/"}