{"nrhp_refnum":"89002155","name":"Bryan-Bell Farm","other_names":["Oakview Plantation"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"NC 58, 1 mi. E of SR 1119","address_restricted":false,"city":"Pollocksville","county":"Jones County","state":"NC","lat":35.00217387450007,"lon":-77.2580686169112,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-12-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 2251-acre mixed farm and former plantation (also known as Oakview Plantation) straddling NC Highway 58 west of Pollocksville in Jones County, North Carolina, centered on the Bryan-Bell House and its outbuildings and farm clusters.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the farm is one of the county's few surviving intact nineteenth-century plantations, illustrating the evolution of Jones County agriculture and a single plantation's development from the 1840s to the late twentieth century. The house is presented as the only Jones County example of Neo-Classical Revival style, and its original Late Federal form and 1920 remodelling are said to reflect the architectural influence of New Bern.","narrative":"Pollocksville's western approaches hold the Bryan-Bell Farm, a 2251-acre tract of woodland and cultivated fields along NC 58 in Jones County. The plantation core was established by James C. Bryan, who bought the land in 1844 and probably built the two-and-a-half-story frame house in the early 1840s in the Late Federal style. In 1920, Joseph Hiram Bell's son Edward Earl Bell had the house remodelled in the Neo-Classical Revival style, adding a monumental four-column Corinthian portico. The property is regarded as a rare surviving intact nineteenth-century plantation in the county. Its landscape of fields divided by drainage ditches, and its outbuildings from the 1840s through the 1940s, document changes in land use from the antebellum period through tenant farming and mid-twentieth-century livestock raising. The house interior also keeps Late Federal mantels and mahogany-grained transom elements. The farm's enslaved workforce, owned by the Bryans, is documented in census records.","period_of_significance":"1844-1939","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Federal; Neo-Classical Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Farm land is rented out; the main house is occupied by the family of the owner, and a smaller house is occupied by one of his sons.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.588558-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/14/7210/47721014/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/89002155.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89002155/550b99c5b6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89002155/550b99c5b6-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Tradewinds","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bryan-Bell_Farm.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:Bryan-Bell_Farm.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721014","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan%E2%80%93Bell_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19460714"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/jones-county/bryan-bell-farm-89002155/"}