{"nrhp_refnum":"03000803","name":"Brownlea","other_names":["Rufus C. Brown House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"405 Southampton Court","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fayetteville","county":"Cumberland County","state":"NC","lat":35.05252370000005,"lon":-78.91449902999994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-08-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Brownlea, also known as the Rufus C. Brown House, is a two-story Colonial Revival house with brownstone veneer at 405 Southampton Court in Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina. It was built in 1939 on a just-under-three-acre estate, with a well house, barbeque pit and a second house.","why_significant":"The nomination argues Brownlea is one of Fayetteville's finest Colonial Revival suburban dwellings. Its brownstone veneer is rare for the style locally and recalls the stone of the demolished 1830s U.S. Arsenal. Its sprawling, telescoping plan is distinctive in the city, and the house keeps a high degree of interior and exterior integrity.","narrative":"Brownlea is a sprawling Colonial Revival house built in 1939 on the west side of Raeford Road in Fayetteville. Designed by architect J. Harold McDowell for Rufus C. Brown, a local businessman in the sash manufacturing and savings and loan fields, it has a two-story main block, flanking wings, a garage and a sunroom under a slate roof. Random-pattern brownstone veneer covers the walls, a material uncommon for the style in Fayetteville that echoes the stone of the old U.S. Arsenal. Inside, the original floor plan, curved stair, mantels, paneling and chandeliers survive. The grounds retain a stone well house, a barbeque pit and a former tool shed later enlarged into a second house. Though the estate was subdivided in the 1990s, later owners reassembled much of the land and are restoring the curving drive. The house was listed for its architecture, as a distinctive country-estate example of Colonial Revival design in the city.","period_of_significance":"Ca. 1939","architect_builder":"McDowell, J. Harold","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Used as a single dwelling; owners are restoring the historic driveway and landscaping. Part of the original estate was subdivided around 1993 and is excluded.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:53.820441-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/98/7197/47719798/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/03000803.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000803/d2309e6bfc-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000803/d2309e6bfc-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Apc106","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brownlea_(1).JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Apc106</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:Brownlea_(1).JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719798","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownlea","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18152466"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/cumberland-county/brownlea-03000803/"}