{"nrhp_refnum":"05000381","name":"Salter-Battle Hunting and Fishing Lodge","other_names":["Portsmouth Hunting and Fishing Club"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Sheep Island","address_restricted":false,"city":"Ocracoke","county":"Carteret County","state":"NC","lat":35.058072467000045,"lon":-76.07977201499995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-05-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Entertainment/Recreation"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story, side-gable frame hunting and fishing lodge on concrete piers, built c. 1945 on Sheep Island in Pamlico Sound, Carteret County, North Carolina, on the Outer Banks. It was moved to the island from a military installation at Atlantic and rebuilt there.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the lodge is significant for its association with the recreational waterfowl hunting and fishing tradition along the Core Banks from about 1870 through the 1950s. It is presented as one of the few remaining historic lodges on the northern Core Banks islands and as a continuing example of the hunting lodge's shelter function. The period of significance extends to the late 1950s to include a contributing outbuilding built c. 1957.","narrative":"Built around 1945 on Sheep Island in Pamlico Sound, the Outer Banks lodge is a simple one-story frame building set on concrete piers, with a screened porch added by the Battle family after 1948. The Salter family relocated the building from a military installation at Atlantic and rebuilt it on the island as a replacement for an earlier lodge that a 1938 hurricane partly destroyed. Local men and women of the Salter family used it for commercial waterfowl hunting and guiding, and members of the Portsmouth Hunting and Fishing Club later shared it on weekends. The lodge is important for its association with the waterfowl hunting and fishing culture of Carteret County, which flourished from about 1870 to 1950. It is regarded as one of the few surviving historic hunting lodges on the northern Core Banks. A nearby cemetery holds the graves of John Wallace, a former governor of Shell Castle Island, and his wife, Rebecca.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1945-1957","architect_builder":"Salter, John Wallace, builder","architectural_style":"Bungalow/Craftsman","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Used seasonally as a retreat by the Battle family under a lease with the National Park Service; the building remains in use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.377738-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/34/7194/47719434/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/05000381.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719434","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salter-Battle_Hunting_and_Fishing_Lodge","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18157662"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/carteret-county/salter-battle-hunting-and-fishing-lodge-05000381/"}