{"nrhp_refnum":"99000716","name":"Mitchell-Ward House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Jct. NC 1119 and NC 1002","address_restricted":false,"city":"Belvidere","county":"Perquimans County","state":"NC","lat":36.275067259000025,"lon":-76.56770438099994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1999-06-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, double-pile, side-hall-plan farmhouse with a rebuilt rear kitchen, located at a rural crossroads near the Chowan County line about five miles from Belvidere in Perquimans County, North Carolina. It was built c. 1832 for physician Dr. William Mitchell and is known historically as Snow Hill.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is one of the finest intact examples of the Federal-style side-hall dwelling built by Albemarle Sound builders in Perquimans County. Its exterior details, including turned and reeded porch posts, modillion cornice, carved gable fanlight and paired Flemish bond chimneys, are cited as exceptional. A detached kitchen with a massive cooking fireplace, about eighty feet south of the house, is also described as significant.","narrative":"Built c. 1832 near the Chowan County line in rural Perquimans County, North Carolina, this two-story, double-pile farmhouse follows the side-hall plan with a broad central hall and a quarter-turn stair. Its Federal-style features include a carved gable fanlight, turned and reeded porch posts, a modillion cornice and two double-shoulder chimneys laid in Flemish bond. The house was built for Dr. William Mitchell, an Irish-born physician and landholder who named the property Snow Hill. Later owners included members of the White, Winslow and Ward families, who operated a steam mill on the farm. The house is regarded as one of the finest intact examples of its type in the county. It was listed for its architecture, with the Federal interior woodwork, painted and marbleized in the late nineteenth century, and the nearby detached kitchen with a large cooking fireplace adding to its value as a surviving group. The house had been vacant for years before restoration began in the late 1990s.","period_of_significance":"C. 1832","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"The house has deteriorated through neglect and is undergoing restoration; the porch was removed in 1998 and the rear kitchen was rebuilt in 1999.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:40.826691-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/32/7217/47721732/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/99000716.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000716/3f030069a5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000716/3f030069a5-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Leah Rucker","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mitchel-Ward_House,_aka_Snow_Hill.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Leah Rucker</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mitchel-Ward_House,_aka_Snow_Hill.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721732","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell%E2%80%93Ward_House_(Belvidere,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19987130"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/perquimans-county/mitchell-ward-house-99000716/"}