{"nrhp_refnum":"93000323","name":"Buxton Place","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"NC 58 W side, 0.2 mi. N of jct. with NC 1628","address_restricted":false,"city":"Inez","county":"Warren County","state":"NC","lat":36.24117052050008,"lon":-78.1055838073162,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1993-04-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Buxton Place is a 795.10-acre antebellum plantation in southern Warren County near the crossroads community of Inez, North Carolina, centered on a two-story Greek Revival/Italianate main house built beginning in 1857 with a surrounding home lot of farm and domestic outbuildings.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the property is significant for its architecture, as an intact example of the Jacob Holt school of antebellum builders, and for its agricultural history, tracing a planter family's tobacco and cotton economy from the antebellum period to the mid-twentieth century. Its main house is described as largely unaltered and its outbuildings as reflecting the plantation's historic uses.","narrative":"Buxton Place is a 795-acre farm in southern Warren County, North Carolina, near the crossroads community of Inez. Its centerpiece is a two-story, double-pile frame house on a raised brick basement, begun in 1857 by builder John A. Waddell for the family of planter John Buxton Williams. The house combines Greek Revival and Italianate features, including bracketed eaves, ogee-arched window panes, and grained and marbleized interior woodwork. It is regarded as a fine example of the work of Jacob W. Holt and his associates, a group of builders active in Warren County between about 1845 and 1870. The surrounding home lot holds nineteenth and twentieth century farm outbuildings, including a mid-nineteenth century smokehouse. The property also documents the shift from a slave-based tobacco economy to tenant farming, cotton, and later cattle raising. It remains a working farm that retains much of its original appearance.","period_of_significance":"1857-1942","architect_builder":"John A. Waddell (builder); Jacob W. Holt (associated builder)","architectural_style":"Greek Revival/Italianate","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Described as a productive agricultural unit still operating as a cattle farm, with the main house largely unaltered.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.033356-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/20/7227/47722720/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/93000323.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722720","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buxton_Place","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20638883"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/warren-county/buxton-place-93000323/"}