{"nrhp_refnum":"88001269","name":"Oliver-Morton Farm","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"NC 1417","address_restricted":false,"city":"Oak Hill","county":"Granville County","state":"NC","lat":36.426939340000075,"lon":-78.6802624185311,"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 rural farm complex in Oak Hill, Granville County, North Carolina, reached by a long gravel lane about a mile from the nearest paved road. It contains the Oliver House, a brick-nogged dwelling of the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century, the Samuel V. Morton House, an Italianate I-house built in the early 1890s, and five contributing outbuildings from its bright leaf tobacco era.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the farm represents rural Granville County life before the Civil War and during the post-war bright leaf tobacco era. The Oliver House is described as unusual in the county for brick-nogging throughout its walls and interior partitions, and for a two-room-deep plan that is the earliest of its kind locally. The Morton House is significant for its bracketed Italianate finish, which is unusual for rural farmhouses of the period.","narrative":"Set at the end of a long gravel lane about a mile from the nearest paved road in Oak Hill, Granville County, the farm contains a group of dwellings and outbuildings spanning roughly the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth. Its oldest building, the Oliver House, is a steeply pitched story-and-loft house whose walls and interior partitions are brick-nogged between heavy pegged studs, a practice found in only a few other county buildings. It has a two-room-deep plan with four rooms and a closed stair, and it keeps a three-part Georgian door surround and flush-sheathed wainscoting. Deeds first record it in 1824, when Francis H. Oliver sold it with 461.5 acres to Thomas Vass. Samuel V. Morton, who acquired 702.4 acres in 1888, built a two-story Italianate I-house to its south in the early 1890s. Its bracketed porch and interior post-and-lintel mantels are unusual for rural farmhouses of the period. Five outbuildings, including a diamond-notched log striphouse, survive from the tobacco era.","period_of_significance":"late 18th/early 19th century-1937","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Georgian; Italianate; I-house","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The Morton House is occupied by tenants; the Oliver House was converted to a packhouse in the twentieth century.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.140737-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/78/7178/47717878/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/88001269.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717878","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver%E2%80%93Morton_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19987414"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/granville-county/oliver-morton-farm-88001269/"}