{"nrhp_refnum":"94001025","name":"Perry Farm","other_names":["Wake County,NC survey site #Wa 1941"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NC 2320 S side, E of jct. with NC 2300","address_restricted":false,"city":"Riley Hill","county":"Wake County","state":"NC","lat":35.85216260850004,"lon":-78.40215068791838,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1994-08-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Social History","Black","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A farmstead on a ten-acre tract on the south side of Riley Hill Road in rural southeast Wake County, North Carolina, near Wendell, centered on a transitional Georgian-Federal two-story frame house dated c. 1820, with outbuildings from the antebellum and later nineteenth century and early twentieth century.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the farm is significant for its architecture, as an unusually complete and representative ensemble of a farm's domestic core, and for ethnic heritage and social history. It was owned for over seventy-five years by a prominent Black family whose progenitors were enslaved on the property, and the family's members were active in local church, education and civic life.","narrative":"Set on the south side of Riley Hill Road in rural southeast Wake County, the Perry Farm centers on a two-story frame house dated c. 1820 in a transitional Georgian-Federal style, with a hall-and-parlor plan and interior woodwork that the nomination describes as largely unaltered. John Perry bought the 496-acre tract in 1835 and owned it until his death in 1852. Around it stand a smokehouse, a log double-crib barn, a livestock barn, a corn crib, a tobacco building and a well house, dating from the antebellum period through the early twentieth century. Enslaved workers on the property included Feggins Perry, who after emancipation rented and then acquired land nearby. His son Guyon Perry bought the house and fifty-three acres in 1914. Guyon and his wife Eliza were leaders in Riley Hill Baptist Church, and Guyon served the church as superintendent for thirty-five years. The farm is regarded as an unusually complete example of a Southern farm's domestic core.","period_of_significance":"C. 1820-1944","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Transitional Georgian-Federal","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The house is occupied by the family; the kitchen is used occasionally for canning and large cooking, and the outbuildings are in use for storage and sheltering animals.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.354915-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/43/7186/47718643/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/94001025.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718643","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7169775"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wake-county/perry-farm-94001025/"}