{"nrhp_refnum":"03000931","name":"Smith, Frank and Mary, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2935 John Adams Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Willow Spring","county":"Wake County","state":"NC","lat":35.57537112750006,"lon":-78.6850415120941,"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, frame, center-hall plan I-house built around 1880 at 2935 John Adams Road in the Willow Spring vicinity of Middle Creek Township, Wake County, North Carolina, with a tobacco barn and smokehouse on the nominated acreage.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is an intact, stylishly finished example of the triple-A-roofed I-house, a form that was very popular in late nineteenth-century Wake County. It is distinguished by rear wings that create a double-pile first-floor plan, unusually tall ceilings, a long single-run stair, and mill-sawn Victorian finishes. It is described as one of the oldest surviving I-houses in the county.","narrative":"Built around 1880 on land given to Mary Smith by her parents, this two-story house in southwestern Wake County was home to Frank and Mary Smith until Frank's death in 1921. It is a three-bay, single-pile, center-hall I-house with a triple-A roof, weatherboard siding, quatrefoil gable vents, deep gable returns, molded cornices and bracketed porch posts. Rear wings give the first floor a double-pile plan, and inside are eleven-foot ceilings, wide pine floors, wainscoting, Victorian mantels and a long staircase rising from the wide hall. The Smiths' farm lay near Myatt's Mill, an area settled by Mary's family. After later owners, the house stood empty and vandalized by mid-century, then was bought in 1958 and restored from 1973. Changes include replaced windows, a new kitchen and added bathrooms. The house was listed for its architecture as an intact, notably well-finished example of a common local house type. A relocated tobacco barn and smokehouse on the property are noncontributing.","period_of_significance":"Ca. 1880","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Other: I-House","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Restored by the current owners beginning in 1973; the house stood empty and vandalized by the mid-twentieth century before that. Described as a single dwelling in current use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:53.334768-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/47/7185/47718547/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/03000931.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718547","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_and_Mary_Smith_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1444513"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wake-county/smith-frank-and-mary-house-03000931/"}