{"nrhp_refnum":"97000788","name":"Purefoy-Dunn Plantation (Boundary Decrease)","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"E side of US 1, 0.3 mi. N of US 1A","address_restricted":false,"city":"Wake Forest","county":"Wake County","state":"NC","lat":35.96075191250003,"lon":-78.53891934802832,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1997-07-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A former plantation farm complex on the east side of U.S. Highway 1 southwest of Wake Forest, Wake County, North Carolina, centered on a two-story frame Greek Revival farm house and a mid-nineteenth century smokehouse. The original nomination for the plantation is dated to 1988.","why_significant":"The original listing was made under Criteria B and C for local significance in education and architecture, and for its association with John Purefoy, a founder and member of the first board of trustees of Wake Forest College. The period of significance is circa 1814 to circa 1850. This boundary decrease removes three tracts north of the house that have lost integrity through logging, grading and apartment construction, along with a separated tract proposed for development.","narrative":"Located on the east side of U.S. Highway 1 southwest of Wake Forest in Wake County, North Carolina, the Purefoy-Dunn Plantation centers on a two-story frame farm house in the Greek Revival style and a mid-nineteenth century smokehouse. The house sits on a parcel of about 81.8 acres in the southern part of the former 185-acre property. The plantation was associated with John Purefoy, a founder and member of the first board of trustees of Wake Forest College, and the property was recognized for its ties to education and for its architecture, with a period of significance running from about 1814 to about 1850. This boundary decrease removes the three tracts north of the house. Those tracts, once several cleared fields and woodland, have been logged and graded, and a large apartment complex is under construction on them, so they no longer retain the qualities that made the rest of the property historically important. A separate wooded parcel also left the boundary because it is cut off from the house tract and is proposed for development.","period_of_significance":"c. 1814-1850","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"Tracts north of the farm house have been logged and are under construction as an apartment complex; the house tract remains with the plantation house.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.751053-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/47/7226/47722647/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/97000788.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"88000238","name":"Purefoy-Dunn Plantation","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/purefoy-dunn-plantation-88000238/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722647","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wake-county/purefoy-dunn-plantation-boundary-decrease-97000788/"}