{"nrhp_refnum":"01000725","name":"Gluyas, Thomas and Latitia, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"7314 Mount Holly-Huntersville Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Huntersville","county":"Mecklenburg County","state":"NC","lat":35.34420804100006,"lon":-80.90073084499994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2001-07-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame I-house at 7314 Mount Holly-Huntersville Road in the Long Creek community near Huntersville, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, built about 1865 for Thomas and Latitia Gluyas.","why_significant":"It is nominated under Criterion C for architecture as a rare surviving mid-nineteenth century farmhouse in a county where suburban growth has erased most of its agrarian past. It keeps its traditional two-story, single-pile form, brick end chimneys, hip-roofed porch with chamfered posts, and a well-preserved center-hall interior. It was the centerpiece of a prosperous cotton farm.","narrative":"Built around 1865 on Mount Holly-Huntersville Road in the Long Creek community of northern Mecklenburg County, this two-story frame I-house was the center of a 220-acre cotton farm created by Thomas and Latitia Gluyas. Thomas Gluyas, born in England, served as a militia captain, helped found St. Mark's Episcopal Church, and later served as a county commissioner and state legislator. The house has a side-gable roof, a hip-roofed full-width porch with chamfered posts, brick end chimneys on fieldstone bases, and a rear ell extended in the early twentieth century. Inside, the center-hall plan survives with flushboard walls, pegged paneled doors, a rear-facing staircase, and vernacular classical mantels. Nearby subdivisions have replaced most of the surrounding farmland, which makes the house a rare surviving mid-nineteenth century farmhouse in the county. It was listed for its architecture. Three generations of the family lived there until 1995, and the 2.15-acre parcel retains a wooded setting.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1865","architect_builder":"unknown","architectural_style":"OTHER: traditional I-house","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Owned by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Historic Landmarks Commission, which bought the house and about two acres in 1995; a designated local landmark since 1999. Some alterations to the rear ell and replacement windows are noted.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:52.789402-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/37/7182/47718237/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/01000725.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718237","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_and_Latitia_Gluyas_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19462010"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/mecklenburg-county/gluyas-thomas-and-latitia-house-01000725/"}