{"nrhp_refnum":"01000420","name":"Buck, David M., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NC 1395, 1.1 mi. SW of jct with NC 1401","address_restricted":false,"city":"Bald Mountain","county":"Yancey County","state":"NC","lat":35.96344425850003,"lon":-82.47345658982222,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2001-04-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Industry"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story weatherboarded frame house with associated stone walls, outbuildings, a store and a family cemetery, on a residual tract of the Bald Mountain Boundary near Bald Mountain in rural Yancey County, North Carolina. The house was built ca. 1904 for David M. Buck.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is one of the largest rural residences of its period in Yancey County and retains much of its original interior, including unpainted pre-blight chestnut. It also holds local significance in industry because of Buck's role in the timbering of the Bald Mountain Boundary and his later service in the General Assembly and on the North Carolina Park Commission. The spring house and apple house are presented as surviving evidence of rural self-sufficiency.","narrative":"Built around 1904 at the foot of Bald Mountain in Yancey County, North Carolina, this two-story, center-hall frame house is set on sawn wood piers beneath a steeply pitched asphalt roof, with a wraparound porch on turned columns. Its interior is finished largely in pre-blight chestnut and curly maple, much of it reportedly cut on the property. David M. Buck, a lumberman who timbered the nearby Bald Mountain Boundary tract after acquiring it in 1906, built the house, and it remains the principal surviving reflection of that career. Buck later served four terms in the state General Assembly between 1909 and 1939 and about eight years on the North Carolina Park Commission. The property includes a stone spring house and an apple house, both built for keeping food, along with mortared stone walls and a family cemetery. The house had been unoccupied for many years before the nomination, and some doors and mantels had been removed.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1904-1939","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"Vacant for over three decades before the nomination, with some interior losses including stolen doors and mantels; described as in need of restoration.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.478245-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/6/7229/47722906/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/01000420.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722906","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_M._Buck_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20708610"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/yancey-county/buck-david-m-house-01000420/"}