{"nrhp_refnum":"04001287","name":"Poland, George, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"502 John Jones Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Bahama","county":"Durham County","state":"NC","lat":36.13915005450005,"lon":-78.89386751105683,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-12-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story, flat-roofed International Style house designed by George Matsumoto and built in 1956 at 3929 Arrow Drive in Raleigh; it was moved in 2001 to a 24-acre rural site near Bahama in Durham County.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a well-preserved example of Matsumoto's 'box-on-basement' residential type, one of four surviving in the Raleigh area, and that it reflects the mid-twentieth-century Modernist movement and the work of the North Carolina State College School of Design. It also argues that the relocated house retains its design values and physical integrity, and that the Bahama site is similar in topography and setting to the original.","narrative":"Built in 1956 in Raleigh to a design by George Matsumoto, a faculty member at North Carolina State College's School of Design, this one-story flat-roofed house uses exposed fir I-beams, cantilevered floor and roof planes, and inexpensive materials such as plywood, asbestos panels and cork tile. It was built for George Poland, a professor of Romance languages, and contractor Raymond Frank Walser completed it for $21,140. The house is one of four surviving Raleigh examples of Matsumoto's box-on-basement type. Its Modernist design draws on Mies van der Rohe and the Bauhaus. When the Arrow Drive site lost its views to commercial development, the house was moved to a rural site near Bahama in 2001 and restored using the original drawings. The nomination argues that the new setting keeps the relationship between house and site that Matsumoto intended.","period_of_significance":"1956","architect_builder":"Matsumoto, George, Architect; Walser, Raymond Frank, Builder","architectural_style":"Modern movement: International Style","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Restored after relocation in 2001-2002 and currently occupied as a residence.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.32209-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/40/7200/47720040/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/04001287.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720040","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Poland_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19987623"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/durham-county/poland-george-house-04001287/"}