{"nrhp_refnum":"93001021","name":"Oaky Grove","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Jct. of NC 2506 and NC 2507, SE corner","address_restricted":false,"city":"Shotwell","county":"Wake County","state":"NC","lat":35.73972630050005,"lon":-78.43822470271894,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1993-09-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame single-pile plantation house in the Shotwell community of southeast Wake County, North Carolina, built ca. 1818 as the seat of the Oaky Grove plantation, with a surviving 28-acre home tract that includes a smokehouse, barn, family cemetery and packhouse.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house and its surviving plantation landscape evoke the nineteenth-century social history of Shotwell, once one of the most prosperous plantation centers in Wake County. It also presents the house as a stylish transitional Georgian-Federal interior with original mantels and woodwork, and the family cemetery with its unusual unmarked stone tombs and enclosure wall as distinctive antebellum features.","narrative":"Oaky Grove is a two-story frame house in southeastern Wake County, North Carolina, built in 1818 as the seat of a large plantation owned by Thomas Price, a farmer, miller and merchant. Its original Federal-style interior survives, including four original mantels, wide floorboards and flat-paneled wainscot, while a ca. 1900 remodelling gave it a central hall, a front gable pavilion and a wraparound porch. The surrounding 28-acre home tract keeps a smokehouse, a barn and a family cemetery with a stone enclosure wall built without a gate. Three unmarked stone tombs in the cemetery are considered to be antebellum. The property is significant for its association with the Shotwell community, which had stores, a school and a cotton gin in the nineteenth century. The house is one of the few surviving buildings from that period in the area, and its architecture and cemetery are notable examples of local building practice.","period_of_significance":"1818-1941","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Transitional Georgian-Federal, later remodelled as a Victorian \"Triple-A\" farmhouse (front cross-gable I-house) with Colonial Revival porch","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Remains in family hands; the house is rented out while the woodland and fields are actively managed, and the packhouse is no longer in use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.496571-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/83/7186/47718683/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/93001021.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93001021/4132fc3377-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93001021/4132fc3377-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Nicholas Oren Rawlings","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oaky_Grove_Plantation_House.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Nicholas Oren Rawlings</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:Oaky_Grove_Plantation_House.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718683","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oaky_Grove","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7074339"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wake-county/oaky-grove-93001021/"}