{"nrhp_refnum":"94000545","name":"Parker, James H., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"307 W. Franklin St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Enfield","county":"Halifax County","state":"NC","lat":36.18400695400004,"lon":-77.66799359399994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1994-06-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame Italianate-style house on the south side of Franklin Street on the west side of Enfield, Halifax County, North Carolina, built in 1882 for James Harvey Parker. Its outbuildings include a smokehouse and a storage building on the rear property line.","why_significant":"The house is regarded as a premier representative of a group of Italianate houses built in Enfield between 1875 and 1890, and is significant under Criterion C for architecture. Its interior features a walnut curved staircase, varied mantels, and graining and marbleized painting that survive in unusually intact condition in the town.","narrative":"Built in 1882 as a two-story, single-pile frame house on Franklin Street in Enfield, the Parker House is an Italianate residence set in a neighborhood of late nineteenth and early twentieth century dwellings. James Harvey Parker, a self-made landowner who had risen from modest beginnings, built it for his household during a period when Enfield was becoming a regional trading center. The exterior has chamfered porch posts with sawn brackets, pedimented window and door surrounds, and interior chimneys with corbelled caps. Inside, a curved walnut staircase rises in the rear of the central hall, and most of the rooms retain graining and marbleizing on woodwork and mantels. The house is significant as a leading example of a group of Italianate houses built in Enfield between 1875 and 1890, and for the decorative painting that remains largely intact. The property is being restored by a descendant of Parker.","period_of_significance":"1882","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Being rehabilitated; the document states it was purchased in 1993 by a descendant of the builder and is being restored.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.326803-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/74/7206/47720674/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/94000545.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000545/0f67e9d0ca-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000545/0f67e9d0ca-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Cecouchman","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JamesHParkerHouse_6057.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Cecouchman</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:JamesHParkerHouse_6057.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"100006809","name":"Enfield Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/enfield-historic-district-100006809/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720674","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_H._Parker_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19987456"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/halifax-county/parker-james-h-house-94000545/"}