{"nrhp_refnum":"00001641","name":"Adams, John H., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1108 N. Main ST.","address_restricted":false,"city":"High Point","county":"Guilford County","state":"NC","lat":35.969672381000066,"lon":-80.01535360699995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2001-01-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story stuccoed Italian Renaissance Revival style house at 1108 North Main Street in High Point, Guilford County, North Carolina, built in 1918 on a large corner lot in the Johnson Place subdivision.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is associated with John Hampton Adams, a hosiery manufacturer who helped build High Point's hosiery industry and the Adams-Millis Corporation, and that it is an architecturally significant local example of a high-style residence of the 1910s and early 1920s. It is described as retaining high integrity from the period of Adams's occupancy.","narrative":"Built in 1918 on North Main Street in High Point, this two-story stuccoed house was designed mainly in the Italian Renaissance Revival style, with features drawn from the Mission, Prairie School and Beaux Arts traditions. It has a terra-cotta tile roof, a symmetrical five-bay facade, a columned entrance porch with Ionic columns, and a second-floor loggia with semi-circular arches. Its interior includes an oval vestibule with a marble Greek key floor, a grand hall and an original panelled dining room. The house was built for John Hampton Adams, a hosiery manufacturer who helped establish the hosiery industry in High Point and who lived there until 1931. The nomination regards the house as a rare surviving example of a wealthy industrialist's residence from the pre-Depression boom. It is considered significant both for its association with Adams and as a local example of its architectural style, and it is said to have changed little in its exterior and interior fabric.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1918 to 1931","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italian Renaissance Revival with Mission, Prairie School and Beaux Arts influences","criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"The house was rehabilitated for use as an inn after a funeral home period; the document describes it as currently undergoing rehabilitation.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.303863-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/28/7206/47720628/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/00001641.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00001641/7b72d31195-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00001641/7b72d31195-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Lorenzo S. Winslow","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Adams_House_I.png\" rel=\"noopener\">Lorenzo S. Winslow</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Adams_House_I.png"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720628","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_H._Adams_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19460099"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/guilford-county/adams-john-h-house-00001641/"}