{"nrhp_refnum":"03000928","name":"Avera, Dr. Thomas H., House","other_names":["Avera--Winston House","Avera, William H. House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"6600 Robertson Pond Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Wendell","county":"Wake County","state":"NC","lat":35.81882447000004,"lon":-78.40268999499995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-09-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, T-shaped frame farmhouse northwest of Wendell in rural Wake County, North Carolina, built around 1874 by Dr. Thomas H. Avera. The property also includes outbuildings, a family cemetery and the ruin of an earlier house.","why_significant":"The house is significant under Criterion C for architecture as a rare and refined rural Wake County example blending Gothic Revival and Italianate styles. Steep gables with M-shaped trusses and Gothic-style window hoods and door surrounds combine with an Italianate porch and high-style interior finishes, including decorative wood-grain painting.","narrative":"Northwest of Wendell, in the community once known as Eagle Rock, stands a two-story, T-shaped frame house built around 1874 for Dr. Thomas H. Avera, a physician who served as a Confederate surgeon. Its steep gables carry decorative M-shaped trusses, and the windows have flat hoods. The front door has tracery sidelights and a transom. A porch with chamfered posts, paneled plinths and a turned balustrade shows Italianate styling. Inside, a center-hall plan holds plaster ceiling medallions, deep crown moldings and doors and mantels painted to imitate oak grain. The architect is unknown; a Raleigh designer named Appleget and a Mr. Mosely were both suggested. The house is judged locally significant because few rural Wake County houses blend Gothic Revival and Italianate styles so well. Original weatherboarded smokehouse, dairy and privy with modillioned eaves survive nearby. A family cemetery and an earlier Federal-style house from about 1820 also remain on the property.","period_of_significance":"Ca. 1874","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Gothic; Italianate (Italianate with Gothic Revival influences)","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"The main house remains a single-family dwelling in the owner family's hands. The earlier William W. Avera House, built around 1820, is deteriorated, and the doctor's office burned in the 1940s, leaving only a chimney.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:53.916732-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/39/7185/47718539/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/03000928.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718539","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Thomas_H._Avera_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5304440"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wake-county/avera-dr-thomas-h-house-03000928/"}