{"nrhp_refnum":"00001209","name":"Snyder, John Wesley, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2715 Old Salisbury Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Winston-Salem","county":"Forsyth County","state":"NC","lat":36.02518811700003,"lon":-80.27403980399998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-10-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story granite house built around 1922 on Old Salisbury Road, just south of Winston-Salem in Forsyth County, North Carolina, with a granite garage/apartment, granite smokehouse, frame barn and a later frame pack house on about 2.2 acres.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is one of the most architecturally striking dwellings built in Forsyth County in the early 1920s. Solid stone construction was rare for houses in the county, especially in rural areas. Its Craftsman exterior, Colonial Revival/Craftsman interior, original lighting fixtures and matching outbuildings make it one of the county's best domestic architectural complexes of the period.","narrative":"Built around 1922 just south of Winston-Salem, this two-story granite house sits on about 2.2 acres that still feel rural. John Wesley Snyder, a furniture and credit businessman, planned it with his brothers, one a building contractor, and used stone from a small quarry across the road. No architect was involved. The exterior is Craftsman, with a low hipped roof, carved rafter ends and large curved wooden brackets over the entrance. Inside, a center-hall plan features walnut paneling, inlaid oak floors, granite and quartz fireplaces and a largely intact set of 1920s lighting fixtures. A granite garage with apartment, a granite smokehouse added about 1940, and a frame barn complete the farmstead. Stone houses were uncommon in Forsyth County, and most were mansions of wealthy industrialists. This more modest but well-preserved complex was listed for its local architectural significance as one of the county's finest early 1920s domestic groups.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1922, ca. 1940","architect_builder":"No architect; planned by John Wesley Snyder with his brothers Roy and Fred; stonework reportedly by a man named Ephram and woodwork by carpenter Arthur Black (family tradition)","architectural_style":"Craftsman; Colonial Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Remains a private single dwelling with secondary structures; the current owners plan to preserve it.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:54.549643-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/71/7201/47720171/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/00001209.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00001209/46dda7cdf6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00001209/46dda7cdf6-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Drperm1","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Wesley_Snyder_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Drperm1</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:John_Wesley_Snyder_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720171","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wesley_Snyder_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21016199"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/forsyth-county/snyder-john-wesley-house-00001209/"}