{"nrhp_refnum":"05000375","name":"Smith, Whitford G., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"263 Haywood St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Asheville","county":"Buncombe County","state":"NC","lat":35.59472548100007,"lon":-82.56167905899997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-05-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two and one-half-story Queen Anne style house facing southeast on Haywood Street in Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. It was built in 1894 by druggist Whiteford G. Smith.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a well-preserved, modest example of the Queen Anne style in Asheville, retaining late nineteenth-century features such as a bracketed porch with turned posts, pedimented entries, beaded weatherboards, and a bracketed cornice. Its interior woodwork, including wainscot, mantels, corner blocks, and five-panel doors with original hardware, is cited as evidence of the style. It is one of a small number of Queen Anne houses of this scale remaining in the city.","narrative":"Built in 1894 on Haywood Street in Asheville, this two and one-half-story house was constructed by druggist Whiteford G. Smith, who occupied it until 1897. Its Queen Anne design includes an irregular plan, a wraparound porch with turned posts and decorative brackets, tripartite bays, hip roofline with projecting pyramidal bays, and extended eaves with brackets. Original beaded-edge weatherboard survives beneath later asbestos siding. Inside, the rooms retain alternating flat and convex wainscot, fluted door and window framing with corner blocks, heart pine flooring, pocket doors, plaster ceiling medallions, and Queen Anne mantels, with a Craftsman-style mantel added around 1913. The house is regarded as one of the best surviving examples of the style in its section of the city, and it stands among a small group of late nineteenth-century Queen Anne houses in Asheville that keep many original details. Its owners over the decades included a musician and piano technician and a labor leader.","period_of_significance":"1894","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Queen Anne","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Altered over time, with asbestos siding over original weatherboard, a later carport, and conversion into apartments in the 1980s; current renovation plans call for restoring the original floor plan.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.24064-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/51/7191/47719151/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/05000375.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000375/68b5db56e1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000375/68b5db56e1-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Elisa.rolle","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Whitford_G._Smith_House_02.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Elisa.rolle</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:Whitford_G._Smith_House_02.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719151","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitford_G._Smith_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18158128"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/buncombe-county/smith-whitford-g-house-05000375/"}