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NPS Form 10 - 900 - a OMB No . 1024 - 0018 <br /> ( 8 - 86j <br /> United States Department of the Interior <br /> National Park Service r .. <br /> NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES <br /> CONTINUATION SHEET <br /> Section 8 Page 23 <br /> Woodville Historic District <br /> Bertie County, North Carolina <br /> About 1917 Woodville farmer Thomas W . Grim hired Philip B . Moser of Norfolk to design his farmhouse . The <br /> large, unpretentious Colonial Revival house has a gambrel roof, large shed dormer, elegant Craftsman-inspired <br /> built-in cupboard , and other Craftsman appointments, including a staircase, mantels and trim . Burges Urquhart . <br /> and Dr. Frank Gams probably utilized mail- order plans for the stylish Craftsman houses they had built in <br /> Woodville about this time . The plantation village of Woodville thus represents the architectural traditions of the <br /> Roanoke Valley from the early nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries . <br />