{"nrhp_refnum":"92000830","name":"Tillery-Fries House","other_names":["Conoconnara Hall","The Mansion","Oak Grove"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"SE side of NC 481, 0.3 mi. N of jct. with NC 1117","address_restricted":false,"city":"Tillery","county":"Halifax County","state":"NC","lat":36.24349483700004,"lon":-77.4947234197733,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1992-07-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story Federal style plantation house with a later Colonial Revival remodelling, set on a 23.29-acre parcel in eastern Halifax County, North Carolina, with outbuildings including an overseer's house of about 1800. The main block was built about 1800 for Major John Tillery.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house exemplifies two phases of American architecture, the Federal style of about 1800 and the early Colonial Revival additions made between about 1891 and 1910. It retains original molded weatherboards, cornice, mantels and brace-framing, and the Colonial Revival wings were among the first such remodellings in Halifax County. It is also tied to planter and later northern owner families of the area.","narrative":"Located in eastern Halifax County, North Carolina, the two-story brick-chimneyed house was built about 1800 for Major John Tillery, whose plantation extended to the Roanoke River. Its original block keeps molded weatherboards, a Federal boxed cornice, flat-panelled wainscoting, and several Federal mantels, and its interior brace-framing has pit-saw and sash-saw marks. Between about 1891 and 1910, Harold H. Fries, a New York chemist and businessman, added two-story Colonial Revival wings at each gable end, full-facade porches with Tuscan columns, and a kitchen-dining wing, and installed indoor plumbing with hot water. The house was electrified in 1894, reportedly the first in the area to have its own dynamo. The property also includes an overseer's house of about 1800, a frame smokehouse, dairy and storage shed from the late nineteenth or early twentieth century, and a manager's cottage. Its significance lies in the way the Federal core and the Colonial Revival changes are both preserved in one complex.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1800-ca. 1910","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal; Colonial Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.000358-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/82/7206/47720682/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/92000830.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92000830/f807e234dd-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92000830/f807e234dd-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"JERRYE &amp; ROY KLOTZ, M.D.","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TILLERY-FRIES_HOUSE,_TILLERY,_HALIFAX_COUNTY_NC.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">JERRYE &amp;amp; ROY KLOTZ, M.D.</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TILLERY-FRIES_HOUSE,_TILLERY,_HALIFAX_COUNTY_NC.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720682","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tillery-Fries_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18711681"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/halifax-county/tillery-fries-house-92000830/"}