{"nrhp_refnum":"05000549","name":"Smith, Turner and Amelia, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"12244 Old Stage Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Willow Spring","county":"Wake County","state":"NC","lat":35.579130004000035,"lon":-78.69374016199998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-06-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, three-bay, single-pile I-house with a triple-A roof on Old Stage Road (SR 1006) in the Willow Springs vicinity of Middle Creek Township, Wake County, North Carolina. Turner and Amelia Smith built it in the late 1880s on land given to Amelia by her parents.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is locally significant under Criterion C as a largely intact example of a vernacular Italianate dwelling, distinguished from more typical county I-houses by its finishes at the porch and second-story roofline. It also notes the house was built in two phases, with a single-story gable-roofed cottage enlarged by a second story, which produced an unusually tall rear shed.","narrative":"Built in the late 1880s on Old Stage Road in Wake County, North Carolina, the Turner and Amelia Smith House is a two-story frame I-house with a triple-A roof and a tall rear shed. It began as a single-story, gable-roofed, two-room-deep cottage on land given to Amelia Myatt by her parents in 1886, and a second story was added within a few years. Its vernacular Italianate details include round gable vents, deep gable returns, molded modillion cornices, and three-part chamfered porch posts ending in sawn spandrels. The interior keeps wide pine floors, eleven-foot ceilings, and a paneled newel post with an urn-like finial. Its finishes set it apart from the many plainer I-houses of the county, and the house is valued as one of the oldest surviving triple-A I-houses in Wake County. The Smith family farmed here until the mid-1920s.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"The house has been vacant for the past fifteen years, and the current owner is undertaking a rehabilitation that has removed the collapsed porch section and the rear ell.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.670446-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/51/7185/47718551/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/05000549.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718551","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turner_and_Amelia_Smith_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1732837"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wake-county/smith-turner-and-amelia-house-05000549/"}