{"nrhp_refnum":"03000300","name":"Howell, Alden and Thomasene, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"129 Woolsey Heights","address_restricted":false,"city":"Waynesville","county":"Haywood County","state":"NC","lat":35.49499751800005,"lon":-82.97964192999996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-04-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-one-half-story Shingle Style house with a contributing former carriage house, built ca. 1905 on a hill called Woolsey Heights in Waynesville, Haywood County, North Carolina. The architect is unknown.","why_significant":"The house is a highly intact and rare example of the Shingle Style, a style uncommon in the South and in the North Carolina mountains. It is the best preserved of three Shingle Style houses built as a family compound by the Woolsey family, wealthy Alabama summer visitors who settled in Waynesville. It reflects the architectural influence of wealthy out-of-state visitors in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.","narrative":"Set on a hill overlooking the north end of Main Street in Waynesville, this ca. 1905 house is one of three Shingle Style residences built as a family compound called Woolsey Heights. Minthorne Woolsey, an Alabama cotton broker who first came to town as a summer visitor, built homes for himself and his two daughters. This one went to Thomasene Woolsey and her husband Alden Howell Jr. The two-and-one-half-story house has asymmetrical massing, a cross-gambrel roof, a corner turret, a wraparound porch with stone piers, and a stone porte-cochere. Shingles cover the second story and wide German siding the first. Inside are a large living hall with a granite fireplace, a walnut staircase, and paneled wainscot. A gambrel-roofed carriage house, now a garage and apartment, also survives. The architect is unknown. Shingle Style houses are uncommon in the South, and this one is the most intact of the three Woolsey family houses, which is the basis for its local architectural significance.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1905","architect_builder":"unknown","architectural_style":"Shingle Style","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Current function listed as single dwelling; the carriage house is now a garage with an apartment above.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:52.817285-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/64/7207/47720764/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/03000300.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000300/a0a1bfc045-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000300/a0a1bfc045-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"AbeEzekowitz","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alden_and_Thomasene_Howell_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">AbeEzekowitz</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alden_and_Thomasene_Howell_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720764","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alden_and_Thomasene_Howell_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19462427"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/haywood-county/howell-alden-and-thomasene-house-03000300/"}