{"nrhp_refnum":"03000927","name":"Cedar Point","other_names":["Gwyn, Richard, House","Franklin, Richard Gwyn, House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"350 W. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Elkin","county":"Surry County","state":"NC","lat":36.243589747000044,"lon":-80.85733703199998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-09-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Cedar Point is a two-story heavy-timber frame I-house with a rear ell at 350 West Main Street in Elkin, Surry County, North Carolina. Richard Gwyn built it around 1840, and it sits on a nearly two-acre hilltop lot.","why_significant":"It is probably the oldest house in Elkin and a good local example of a plain vernacular I-house with simple Greek Revival and late classical details. It is also tied to Richard Gwyn, Thomas Lenoir Gwyn and Richard Gwyn Franklin, who shaped Elkin's settlement and community development. The Gwyn and Franklin families owned it until 1975.","narrative":"Cedar Point is a two-story frame I-house with a rear ell, set on a hill above the Yadkin River and Elkin Creek at 350 West Main Street in Elkin, North Carolina. Richard Gwyn built it around 1840 after buying nearly 1,700 acres on the river's north side. It is probably the oldest house in Elkin and one of only five buildings surviving from before 1880. Around 1870 his son Thomas Lenoir Gwyn added the present porches and probably the front gable and round-arched gable windows. Inside, the center-hall stair and eight classical mantels carry most of the decoration. The house was listed for its architecture as a plain vernacular I-house with Greek Revival and late classical details. It was also listed for its links to Richard Gwyn, known as Elkin's founding father, to his son Thomas Lenoir Gwyn, a mill founder and town commissioner, and to Richard Gwyn Franklin, who sold lots that became the Franklin Heights neighborhood. Family ownership lasted until 1975.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1840 - 1930","architect_builder":"Unknown (built by Richard Gwyn)","architectural_style":"Other: I-house; Greek Revival","criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"Maintained in excellent condition and well preserved, with a high degree of historic integrity; the form lists current use as a single dwelling.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:54.216468-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/38/7223/47722338/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/03000927.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000927/c0a8e9abe2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000927/c0a8e9abe2-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"G Keith Hall","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cedar_Point.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">G Keith Hall</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:Cedar_Point.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722338","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedar_Point_(Elkin,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19945978"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/surry-county/cedar-point-03000927/"}