{"nrhp_refnum":"88001268","name":"Littlejohn, Joseph B., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"219 Devin St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Oxford","county":"Granville County","state":"NC","lat":36.31214740400003,"lon":-78.58051542699997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-08-31","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, heavy timber frame house at 219 Devin Street in Oxford, Granville County, North Carolina, built around 1820 by attorney and planter Joseph B. Littlejohn on a 3.1-acre town lot, with a surviving pre-Civil War outbuilding.","why_significant":"The house is considered one of Oxford's and Granville County's most finely finished transitional Georgian/Federal style dwellings. It is an early example of both the side-hall and center-hall plans and is one of the three oldest buildings in Oxford. It is also significant to local social history for its prominent residents, including a Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court and a federal judge.","narrative":"Set on a wooded 3.1-acre lot at 219 Devin Street in Oxford, this two-story timber-frame house dates to about 1820, when attorney and planter Joseph B. Littlejohn built it after moving from Edenton. It began as a side-hall plan and was soon extended to a five-bay, center-hall form. Its finely finished transitional Georgian/Federal woodwork, including three-part door and window surrounds, six-panel doors and paneled wainscoting, survives largely intact. Restoration work in the early 1980s revealed the original window framing and the numbered, pegged timbers. A pre-Civil War outbuilding, probably a smokehouse, is one of only two known in Oxford. The house is also noted for its residents: Thomas H. Willie, first principal of the Oxford Male Academy; Baptist minister Robert I. Devin and his son, Chief Justice William A. Devin; and federal judge Frank W. Bullock Jr. Together, its architecture, early plan types and occupants made it locally significant.","period_of_significance":"circa 1820-1937","architect_builder":"Joseph B. Littlejohn (builder/designer per 1832 sale notice); form lists architect/builder as unknown","architectural_style":"Transitional Georgian/Federal","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Restored by the current owners in the early 1980s and described as in excellent condition; still used as a single dwelling.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:50.252662-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/15/7179/47717915/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/88001268.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88001268/f7269d607a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88001268/f7269d607a-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joseph_B._Littlejohn_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joseph_B._Littlejohn_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717915","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_B._Littlejohn_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19986822"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/granville-county/littlejohn-joseph-b-house-88001268/"}