Gibbs House is a historic home located at

Beaufort Beaufort may refer to: People and titles * Beaufort (surname) * House of Beaufort, English nobility * Duke of Beaufort (England), a title in the peerage of England * Duke of Beaufort (France), a title in the French nobility Places Polar regions ...

Carteret County, North Carolina Carteret County is located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 67,686. Its county seat is Beaufort. The county was created in 1722 as Carteret Precinct and gained county status in 1739. It was named fo ...

. It was built about 1851, and is a two-story, five bay by four bay, nearly square

Greek Revival The Greek Revival was an architectural movement which began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and the United States and Canada, but ...

style dwelling. It features a two-tier porch with four paneled posts. The house was used in the 1880s by marine scientists from the

Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hem ...

. The Johns Hopkins Seaside Laboratory operated here for some ten years, probably the first school of marine biology in the United States. It was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 1973.

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Johns Hopkins University Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Greek Revival houses in North Carolina Houses completed in 1851 Houses in Carteret County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Carteret County, North Carolina 1851 establishments in North Carolina {{CarteretCountyNC-NRHP-stub