{"nrhp_refnum":"92000149","name":"Jones-Wright House","other_names":["Polly Wright House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NC 1003 W side, 0.2 mi. S of jct. with NC 1252","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rocky Ford","county":"Franklin County","state":"NC","lat":36.212489187000074,"lon":-78.34791470199997,"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, Late Georgian frame house of about 1790 on a wooded five-acre tract in rural northern Franklin County, North Carolina, reached by an unpaved drive from State Road 1003. It is known locally as the Polly Wright House.","why_significant":"The house is a well-crafted and relatively intact example of a Late Georgian plantation house and a member of a notable but dwindling group of similar houses built for small planters and moderately well-to-do farmers in the county. Its ornate modillion cornice is considered distinctive, and its interior woodwork and mantels are typical of the period. The nomination also links the house to Daniel Jones, a Revolutionary War captain, and to Mary D. 'Polly' Wright, a planter's daughter who was long associated with it.","narrative":"Built about 1790 as a single-pile, three-bay frame house on an ashlar granite foundation, the Jones-Wright House has nine-over-nine windows, a modillioned boxed cornice, and double-shouldered Flemish bond chimneys. Probably built for Daniel Jones, a captain in the Continental Army who later served in the state legislature, it passed through several planter families and was rented out for much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Its hall and parlor plan keeps original Late Georgian woodwork, including flat-panel wainscoting, six-panel doors with three-part surrounds, and fluted mantels. A rear shed wing, added in the early nineteenth century, and later additions show how the house grew over time. The house is regarded as a well-crafted and relatively intact example of its type, and its woodwork and cornice are closely compared with other surviving Georgian houses in Franklin County.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1790-ca. 1840","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Georgian","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Restoration work was underway, with replacement siding, a new wood shingle roof and a reconstructed portico; the house was previously rented out and allowed to deteriorate.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.950678-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/16/7203/47720316/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/92000149.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720316","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jones%E2%80%93Wright_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18711591"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/franklin-county/jones-wright-house-92000149/"}