{"nrhp_refnum":"03000338","name":"Hull, James Heyward, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"710 N. Lafayette St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Shelby","county":"Cleveland County","state":"NC","lat":35.30033034000007,"lon":-81.53919020199999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-05-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame house at 710 North Lafayette Street in Shelby, Cleveland County, North Carolina, built about 1874 in the Italianate style and remodeled in 1907 in the Neoclassical Revival style, with a garage on the lot.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is an excellent example of a 1907 Neoclassical Revival dwelling in Shelby, one of several built around the turn of the century by prominent residents. The 1907 remodeling for cotton broker James Heyward Hull added a monumental portico, flanking porches and an ornate roof. The style is tied to wealthy industrialists of early twentieth century piedmont North Carolina.","narrative":"Standing on a one-acre lot on North Lafayette Street in Shelby, this large two-story house began about 1874 as an Italianate home for Methodist minister Hilary T. Hudson. In 1907 cotton broker James Heyward Hull bought it and hired an architect, whose name is not documented, to remake it in the Neoclassical Revival style. The work added a monumental semi-elliptical portico with fluted Corinthian columns, flanking one-story porches with Doric columns, a deck-on-hip roof with modillion and dentil cornices, dormers, and a fully remodeled interior. Only a few Italianate features remain, including segmental-arched windows and a double-leaf front door. In the 1940s the family added a two-story rear wing, enclosed the south porch as a sunroom, and divided the house into a first-floor residence and upstairs apartments. A 1907 brick garage also survives. The house is valued as a well-preserved example of the style favored by Shelby's wealthy businessmen in the early twentieth century.","period_of_significance":"1907","architect_builder":"unknown","architectural_style":"Classical Revival (Neoclassical Revival; originally Italianate)","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Converted to apartments in the 1940s; the form lists current function as multiple dwelling. The garage survives while other outbuildings are gone.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:52.87652-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/42/7196/47719642/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/03000338.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000338/aa91a8f06e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000338/aa91a8f06e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Upstateherd","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_Heyward_Hull_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Upstateherd</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:James_Heyward_Hull_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719642","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Heyward_Hull_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18152061"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/cleveland-county/hull-james-heyward-house-03000338/"}