Green-Polk House

Contributors:

Jacob W. Holt, attributed carpenter; Woodson and Rice, attributed brickmasons

Dates:

Ca. 1850

Location:

Warrenton, Warren County

Street Address:

326 N. Main St., Warrenton, NC

Status:

Standing

Type:

Residential

Images Published In:

Catherine W. Bishir, “Jacob W. Holt, An American Builder,” Winterthur Portfolio (Spring, 1980), reprinted in Catherine W. Bishir, Southern Built: American Architecture, Regional Practice (2006).
Kenneth McFarland, The Architecture of Warren County, North Carolina, 1770s to 1860s (2001).

Note:

One of the few antebellum brick houses in town, the tall but shallow residence features ornate Greek Revival detail inside and out, indicative of Holt’s workshop, with kinship to the work of Albert Gamaliel Jones. Client Nathaniel Green’s creditors included both Holt and Woodson and Rice.