{"nrhp_refnum":"02000056","name":"Washburn Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"2401,2426,2436 Bostic-Sunshine Hwy, 1391,1392 Andrews Mill Rd., 126-156, 157 Salem Church Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Bostic","county":"Rutherford County","state":"NC","lat":35.39239762750006,"lon":-81.81522900331638,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-02-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Commerce"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A crossroads community of about sixty-three acres at Bostic in Rutherford County, North Carolina, comprising sixteen Washburn family properties including residences, rental houses, a store, a funeral home and outbuildings, developed from the early twentieth century.","why_significant":"The district is significant for its architecture, notably the large Classical Revival house built 1914-1915 that is regarded as one of the most imposing rural residences in the county, and for commerce, as a general store has been operated by the Washburn family at the crossroads since at least the 1880s. The buildings represent the long association of one family with the place and its service to the surrounding agricultural community.","narrative":"Washburn Historic District is a crossroads community of about sixty-three acres in east central Rutherford County, near Bostic, built around a general store that has been run by one family since the 1880s. Its centerpiece is the Edgar Nollie Washburn House, a brick Classical Revival residence begun in 1914 and finished in 1915, with a two-story Tuscan portico, slate hipped roof and a center-hall plan with elaborate mantels and oak woodwork. The district also contains a 1925 brick store still used for general merchandise, a funeral business begun in 1928, a Colonial Revival house from 1929, and four frame rental houses built in the 1940s for families and returning veterans. Its significance lies in the architecture of the main house, which is closely comparable to the James Dexter Ledbetter House in Forest City, and in the continuous family mercantile operation that served the farming community for generations.","period_of_significance":"1914-1950","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Classical Revival; Colonial Revival; Period Cottage","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.007587-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/76/7221/47722176/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/02000056.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722176","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/rutherford-county/washburn-historic-district-02000056/"}