{"nrhp_refnum":"92000148","name":"Speight-Bynum House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NC 1231 W side, 0.4 mi. N of jct. with NC 1232","address_restricted":false,"city":"Walstonsburg","county":"Greene County","state":"NC","lat":35.584893753000046,"lon":-77.76432029985482,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1992-03-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, frame Greek Revival plantation house built about 1850 on a 12-acre tract west of SR 1231 near Walstonsburg, Greene County, North Carolina, with a smokehouse and several farm outbuildings.","why_significant":"The house is a prominent member of a small group of well-crafted antebellum Greek Revival plantation houses in Greene County that reflect the county's prosperous mid-nineteenth century agricultural society. It was the seat of a large farm owned by state senator James Pell Speight, and it is eligible for its architecture.","narrative":"Built around 1850 near Walstonsburg in Greene County, this two-story, double-pile, central-hall frame house is a Greek Revival plantation residence. Its features include corner pilasters, deep eaves with scroll-sawn brackets, a hipped tin roof, and a front porch with panelled posts. The interior retains original plaster cornices, a cast plaster ceiling medallion, and a turned stair. James Pell Speight, a state senator from 1852 to 1861, had the house built on land received from his father. His farm once held more than 2,000 acres. After the deaths of Speight and his wife, the property passed to Appie Wooten Bynum and then to her descendants, who added an east wing in 1938 and rear additions in the 1950s. A smokehouse from the same period survives, along with twentieth-century farm buildings. The house is considered one of several similar mid-nineteenth century plantation seats in the county, probably by the same unknown builder, which reflect its prosperous agricultural society.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1850","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Well maintained with relatively few alterations; still a working farm residence and occupied by descendants of the Bynum family.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:49.064299-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/62/7204/47720462/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/92000148.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720462","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speight-Bynum_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18711659"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/greene-county/speight-bynum-house-92000148/"}