{"nrhp_refnum":"91000359","name":"Oak View","other_names":["Williams--Wyatt--Poole Farm"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Jct. of Poole Rd. and Raleigh Beltline","address_restricted":false,"city":"Raleigh","county":"Wake County","state":"NC","lat":35.76945301200004,"lon":-78.57200433344792,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-04-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Oak View (Williams-Wyatt-Poole Farm) is a farm historic district in eastern Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, established by Benton S. D. Williams in the 1850s. It includes a mid-19th century I-house remodeled in 1940-41, a kitchen, barns, a gin house, a cemetery and a pecan grove.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the farm is significant in agriculture, architecture, and politics and government. It reflects Wake County's shift from antebellum cotton farming with enslaved labor to a manager-operated farm using wage labor, and it includes a pecan grove among the county's largest. The house shows the trend of remodeling older houses in Colonial Revival style, and Williams was a delegate to the 1868 Constitutional Convention.","narrative":"Oak View is a farm complex on a rise near the Raleigh Beltline, about four miles east of downtown Raleigh. Benton S. D. Williams bought the land in 1853 and built a frame I-house with a two-story pedimented portico around 1855. Surviving buildings include a dovetailed plank kitchen, a carriage house, a livestock barn, a cotton gin house, a water tower, a family cemetery and a large pecan grove planted in the 1910s and 1920s. The farm is significant for several reasons. It shows the move from antebellum cotton growing with enslaved labor to a later manager-run operation with wage workers. Williams served as a Wake County delegate to the 1868 Constitutional Convention. In 1940-41 the house was enlarged and modernized in Colonial Revival style for the J. Gregory Poole family while keeping its Greek Revival front. The farm once covered about 1,000 acres; 72 acres remain, owned by Wake County.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1853-1941","architect_builder":"Williams, Benton S. D. (significant person); architect/builder unknown","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival (Greek Revival main block, remodeled 1940-41)","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Current function listed as vacant/not in use; the gazebo's shingles are badly deteriorated and the kitchen has termite damage. Wake County purchased the remaining 72 acres in 1983.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:49.900902-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/47/7224/47722447/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/91000359.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91000359/f8e7531798-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91000359/f8e7531798-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jmingers at English Wikipedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Historic_Oak_View,_Main_Farmhouse_from_the_Southeast_corner.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jmingers at English Wikipedia</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:Historic_Oak_View,_Main_Farmhouse_from_the_Southeast_corner.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722447","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historic_Oak_View","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16892325"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wake-county/oak-view-91000359/"}