{"nrhp_refnum":"02000499","name":"Turner, John T. and Mary, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1002 Oberlin Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Raleigh","county":"Wake County","state":"NC","lat":35.79806056500007,"lon":-78.66004806999996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-05-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Black"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, side-gable I-house at 1002 Oberlin Road in Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, in the former freedmen's village of Oberlin. The rear one-story section dates to about 1889 and the two-story block to about 1910.","why_significant":"The house is locally significant as a well-preserved I-house with classical and Queen Anne details, larger and more imposing than the small cottages typical of Oberlin. It reflects the financial and social success of John T. Turner, an African American entrepreneur, despite the challenges of racism and poverty after the Civil War. It is also tied to the development of Oberlin as a stable, middle-class Black community.","narrative":"This two-story I-house at 1002 Oberlin Road in Raleigh was built around 1889 by John T. Turner, an African American entrepreneur, and his wife Mary, in the freedmen's village of Oberlin. The one-story rear section appears to be the original house, and the two-story front block was added about 1910. Its double-tier porch with Tuscan columns, polygonal bay, slate roof and weatherboard siding mix classical and Queen Anne elements. Inside, a central stair hall, beadboard wainscoting and elaborate mantels with mirrored overmantels survive. At a time when small cottages were typical in Oberlin, this house was larger and more imposing. Turner ran a grocery, held bank shares, invested in funeral businesses and founded a shoe store on Hargett Street. The house is valued for its high architectural integrity and as a symbol of the success some Oberlin residents achieved despite racism and poverty after the Civil War. The period of significance ends in 1922, the year of Turner's death.","period_of_significance":"c. 1889-1922","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian/Queen Anne; Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals/Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still used as a single dwelling; the form states the house has remained relatively unchanged since the 1920s apart from kitchen remodeling and water damage repairs.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:53.179674-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/39/7186/47718639/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/02000499.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000499/9db6c0855c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000499/9db6c0855c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jim Roberts","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_T._And_Mary_Turner_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jim Roberts</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_T._And_Mary_Turner_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718639","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T._and_Mary_Turner_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20714122"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wake-county/turner-john-t-and-mary-house-02000499/"}