{"nrhp_refnum":"93001541","name":"Fletcher-Skinner-Nixon House and Outbuildings","other_names":["Swampside"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NC 1301 NE side, 0.45 mi. SE of jct. with NC 1300","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hertford","county":"Perquimans County","state":"NC","lat":36.196080076000044,"lon":-76.42888231399996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1994-01-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A ca. 1820 Federal-style two-story frame plantation house with a cook's house, brick dairy, smokehouse, well and ca. 1860 barn on about five acres in the Old Neck area near Hertford, Perquimans County, North Carolina. It is also known as Swampside.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house and outbuildings form a remarkable cross-section of Albemarle plantation buildings from the first half of the nineteenth century. The house has an engaged double-tier piazza, one of the earliest remaining in the county, and exceptional Federal woodwork including a mantel and stair. The farm complex, with its rare brick dairy, also reflects changing ownership from Quaker and plantation society to tenant farming.","narrative":"Set in the Old Neck farming area near Hertford, this ca. 1820 plantation complex centers on a two-story Federal-style frame house with beaded weatherboards, paired exterior end chimneys and a double-tier piazza across the front. Inside, a center-hall plan holds a straight stair and parlor woodwork with reeding, drillwork and sunburst details that the form ranks among the finest in Perquimans County. Surrounding the house are a rare brick dairy, a mid-nineteenth-century smokehouse, a brick well, a former cook's house and a ca. 1860 transverse barn. William Fletcher, a Quaker-descended planter who provided in his will for his slaves to be freed, probably built the house. Members of the Skinner family later owned it, and James Leigh Skinner farmed it until 1897. Tenant farming followed, and the Nixon family acquired the land in 1922. The property illustrates the shift from antebellum plantation life to tenancy and holds an early example of a regional porch form.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1820-1897","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Federal","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Adapted as a bed and breakfast inn in 1992, with floors and marbelized finishes restored; owned by descendants of Thomas Nixon.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:49.72748-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/24/7217/47721724/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/93001541.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"96000929","name":"Old Neck Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/old-neck-historic-district-96000929/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721724","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fletcher-Skinner-Nixon_House_and_Outbuildings","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19865648"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/perquimans-county/fletcher-skinner-nixon-house-and-outbuildings-93001541/"}