{"nrhp_refnum":"88002608","name":"Humphrey-Williams Plantation (Boundary Increase)","other_names":["Humphrey--Williams--Smith House and Plantation","See Also:Hump"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"NC 211 between SR 1001 and SR 1769","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lumberton","county":"Robeson County","state":"NC","lat":34.704411455500036,"lon":-79.06075220746806,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-11-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 566-acre working plantation in central Robeson County, North Carolina, centred on the Humphrey-Williams House, a two-story vernacular Greek Revival frame farmhouse completed in 1846 on a 10.6-acre house tract. The farm complex includes early outbuildings, including a store and post office.","why_significant":"The house is regarded as statewide architectural significance for its unusual, whimsical Greek Revival trim and a front porch finished as an interior room. The surrounding plantation, continuously held by one family for over two centuries and still farmed, is presented as one of the finest surviving antebellum plantations in southeastern North Carolina and a rare survivor of its kind in Robeson County.","narrative":"Along Raft Swamp in central Robeson County stands a two-story frame farmhouse completed in 1846 by Richard Humphrey, whose journal records its finishing in February of that year. The house has a five-bay front, a center hall, and a vernacular Greek Revival interior and exterior finish, with a front porch treated as an interior room and turned posts with coiled-rope capitals. Its trim is unusually whimsical for the region. Around it are a store and post office, a smokehouse, a carriage house, a tobacco barn and other early buildings. The 566-acre tract has passed through one family in unbroken succession since the eighteenth century. Timber, turpentine, and crops such as corn, cotton, and tobacco have all formed part of its economy. The estate's land records, probate papers, and family documents survive in the house, making it a well-documented example of antebellum life in southeastern North Carolina.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1784-ca. 1938","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Vernacular Greek Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still farmed; the farm acreage is rented for crops and the timberland continues to produce income.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.945524-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/48/7219/47721948/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/88002608.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721948","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/robeson-county/humphrey-williams-plantation-boundary-increase-88002608/"}