{"nrhp_refnum":"04000826","name":"Eller, Joseph P., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"494 Clarks' Chapel Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Weaverville","county":"Buncombe County","state":"NC","lat":35.73081371200004,"lon":-82.57207641299993,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-08-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story late nineteenth-century I-house on a hill above Clark's Chapel Road in the Flat Creek section of Buncombe County, north of Weaverville, North Carolina. It was built ca. 1880 and is accompanied by a springhouse and a barn, both contributing, and a garage.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is one of few remaining late nineteenth-century I-houses in the Weaverville vicinity and that it displays the form's typical features. It is distinguished by pedimented gables, a two-tiered front portico with cutwork balustrades and wave bargeboards, and hand-planed mantelpieces. The house is listed for its architecture under Criterion C.","narrative":"Built ca. 1880 on a hill above Clark's Chapel Road in the Flat Creek section north of Weaverville, the Joseph P. Eller House is a two-story I-house with a stone foundation, lapped weatherboard siding and a two-story central portico. Joseph P. Eller, a farmer, carpenter and Methodist Protestant preacher, is associated with the house, which was likely built for his second wife, Harriet, after he bought the 200-acre tract in 1880. The house is valued for its survival among the county's remaining late nineteenth-century I-houses. Its pedimented gables, wave bargeboards, cutwork balustrade on the upper porch and hand-planed mantelpieces show the skilled local carpentry of the period. A springhouse and a barn from the same era remain on the property, which now covers 6.47 acres.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1880","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"I-house","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Renovated ca. 1990 by the Stewart family; subsequently owned by the current owners, who have made no further structural changes.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.511135-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/39/7191/47719139/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/04000826.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000826/3dcb894174-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000826/3dcb894174-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"rossograph","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joseph_P._Eller_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">rossograph</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joseph_P._Eller_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719139","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_P._Eller_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18149824"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/buncombe-county/eller-joseph-p-house-04000826/"}