{"nrhp_refnum":"05000959","name":"Quinlan, Charles and Annie, House","other_names":["The Inn on Prospect Hill","Prospect Hill"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"274 S. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Waynesville","county":"Haywood County","state":"NC","lat":35.48661174400007,"lon":-82.99067877699997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-09-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-a-half-story frame house at 274 South Main Street on Prospect Hill in Waynesville, Haywood County, North Carolina, built 1901-02 for Charles and Annie Quinlan, with a noncontributing carriage house of about 1915.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is a notable Waynesville example of transitional Queen Anne-Colonial Revival architecture, combining irregular massing and a tall hip roof with restrained Colonial Revival woodwork. Its interior shows Craftsman and Colonial Revival details and quality wood finishes with a high degree of integrity. It reflects the modesty of its original owners and the growth that followed the railroad's arrival in 1882.","narrative":"Perched at the top of Prospect Hill on the south side of Waynesville, this two-and-a-half-story frame house was built in 1901-02 for Charles Quinlan, a Pennsylvania-born lumber company manager, and his wife Annie Gudger, whose family owned the hill. The house combines the irregular massing, hipped roof and projecting bays of the Queen Anne style with the restrained woodwork of the Colonial Revival. Inside, oak and cherry finishes, a built-in buffet, a library added around 1920 and original nine-over-one windows survive. Sleeping porches were added about 1916 when a daughter fell ill with tuberculosis. After Annie Quinlan's death in 1955, the house became an inn and restaurant, and a restoration after 1993 returned it to use as a bed-and-breakfast. It was listed for its architecture, as a local example of the transition between two popular styles in a mountain town that grew rapidly after the railroad arrived in 1882.","period_of_significance":"1901-02","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Queen Anne; Colonial Revival (transitional Queen Anne-Colonial Revival)","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Restored by current owners after 1993 and used as a bed-and-breakfast inn; earlier used as an inn, restaurant and antique store.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:52.915979-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/62/7207/47720762/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/05000959.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000959/138b597e91-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000959/138b597e91-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"AbeEzekowitz","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_and_Annie_Quinlan_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">AbeEzekowitz</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_and_Annie_Quinlan_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720762","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_and_Annie_Quinlan_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19987710"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/haywood-county/quinlan-charles-and-annie-house-05000959/"}