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62 NPS Form 10 - 900 - a OMB No . 1024 - 0018 ( 8 - 86 ) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section 7 Page 4 Woodville Historic District Bertie County, North Carolina C 3b . (B) Quarters . antebellum , early 20th century. In the early 20th century, four one-room outbuildings were moved from behind the Averitt-Pugh-Thompson House into the woods north of the house and attached to create quarters for the Thompson family cook. Three of them were arranged in a row, and the fourth was set behind them; connected by a breezeway. Several of the outbuildings have hand -hewn frames, but all were extensively remodeled when they were moved, and the structure is now quite deteriorated . The easternmost room contains a wooden mantel identical to the Greek Revival/Italianate mantels in the main house . C 4 . (B) Thomas W . Griffin House, 1917 . This remarkably intact Colonial Revival style house was built in 19164917 from the plans of architect Philip B . Moser of Norfolk, Virginia. The original blueprints are in the possession of the family. The 1 1 /2 story frame house is five bays wide, with a side-gable form covered by a steep gambrel roof and a full - facade shed dormer. A one- story engaged porch covers the main facade, and two interior brick chimneys project from the roof. While the form is Colonial Revival, finish details have the simple, blocky proportions of the Craftsman style . The main entrance, a single glazed door, has a wide transom and sidelights . Sash, set singly and in groups, are 6/ 1 sash with plain surrounds . Plain siding covers the house . Eaves are boxed and molded, with eave returns on the front and rear shed dormers . Doric posts and a plain railing of Craftsman proportions enclose the porch . At the rear, a one- story ell, the width of the main block, contains the kitchen and an original screened porch . Behind this, a two -car garage was attached in recent years . The interior is finished in Craftsman style, with a stair in the corner of the entrance hall, brick Craftsman mantels, French doors between the main rooms, and, in the dining room, a built-in china cabinet with stained glass doors . Mantels in the dining room and upstairs bedrooms are of wood , of Craftsman and Classical Revival design . In the center of the house, a stair hall contains the service stair to the three bedrooms and a sewing room . John Samuel Griffin purchased a 400 acre farm on this site in 18.70 (Bertie County D . B . 78 ) 350) . In 1922, through a quitclaim deed, J. S . Griffin ' s two daughters gave their brothers, T . W. and C . B . Griffin, 250 acres of the farm in joint ownership . (Bertie County D . B . 223 , 170) T . W. Griffin had his residence built prior to the division of his father' s farm . The Griffin brothers farmed this property jointly until T . W. ' s death in 1934 . His two children, Margaret and Thomas Griffin, were given the 144 acres on which their home stands in 1977 by all of the heirs (Bertie County D .B . 602)1 669) . C 4a. (B) Delco Building. c. 1917 . Small side-gabled frame building . C 4b . (B) Well House. c. 1917 . Small brick side-gable building laid in one-to - six common bond . C 4c. (B) Smokehouse. c. 1917. Front-gabled brick building laid in common bond . C 4d . (B) Barn . c. 1917. One- story front-gable frame barn with flanking open sheds . C 4e. (B) Storehouse. c. 1917 . Front-gabled frame building with two front doors . C 4f. (B ) Sweet Potato House. c . 1917 . Front-gabled frame building with front door and front sash window. C 4g. (B) Cook' s House. 1920s , Small side-gable frame house with front door, front shed porch, and 6/6 sash windows on the sides and rear. This was moved here from an unknown location .