{"nrhp_refnum":"89001767","name":"Baptist Parsonage","other_names":["Archbell House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"211 S. McLewean St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Kinston","county":"Lenoir County","state":"NC","lat":35.25790774300003,"lon":-77.57968201099999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-11-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story Greek Revival frame house at 211 South McLewean Street in Kinston, Lenoir County, North Carolina, probably built in the late 1850s as the parsonage for the Kinston Baptist Church. It is locally known as the Archbell House.","why_significant":"The house is one of a small number of relatively intact antebellum Greek Revival buildings surviving in Kinston, dating from the town's pre-Civil War boom of 1850-1860. It keeps its basic form, materials and many details. It is also associated with merchant Henry Archbell and his wife Lillie, who published the magazine Carolina and the Southern Cross.","narrative":"Built probably in the late 1850s, this two-story frame house on McLewean Street in Kinston first served as the parsonage of the Kinston Baptist Church, shortly after the church was dedicated in January 1858. It is a simple, center-hall, double-pile Greek Revival dwelling with weatherboard siding, a standing seam tin hipped roof, paired stuccoed chimneys and post-and-lintel trim. It survives from a decade when Kinston's population nearly tripled, from 455 to 1,333, and few buildings of that period remain. Later owners Henry and Lillie Archbell altered the porch, windows and rear. Lillie Archbell edited and published Carolina and the Southern Cross from 1912 to 1914, a Confederate-themed magazine of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. The Lenoir County Historical Association acquired the house in 1979, removed later rear additions and restored its early appearance. The first floor now serves as school system offices.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1858","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"The Lenoir County Historical Association has restored and rehabilitated the house. The first floor is in use as offices by the county board of education, and work on the second floor is incomplete.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:50.229381-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/47/7181/47718147/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/89001767.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001767/e13e8c067a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001767/e13e8c067a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Tradewinds","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baptist_Parsonage.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Tradewinds</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baptist_Parsonage.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718147","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptist_Parsonage","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4857673"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/lenoir-county/baptist-parsonage-89001767/"}