{"nrhp_refnum":"05001544","name":"Markham-Albertson-Stinson Cottage","other_names":["Stinson's Ranch"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"4300 W. Soundside Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Nags Head","county":"Dare County","state":"NC","lat":35.945932878000065,"lon":-81.62936842299996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-01-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-and-one-half-story side-gable frame cottage on pilings over Roanoke Sound in the town of Nags Head, Dare County, North Carolina, built about 1916 as a vacation retreat.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the cottage is the last remaining early-twentieth-century sound-side cottage of its type and embodies the characteristics of the Old Nags Head beach cottage style. Its largely original interior and its association with the summer resort life of the sound side of the island are cited as reasons for significance.","narrative":"Built about 1916 on Roanoke Sound in Nags Head, this one-and-one-half-story side-gable frame cottage stands on pilings above the water after the shoreline eroded around its original lot, a former portion of the W. J. Griffin Subdivision. Joseph Wallace Markham and his wife Pattie acquired Lot 12 in 1916 and are credited with building it as a family vacation retreat for Elizabeth City residents. The cottage has weatherboard walls, later cedar shingles on three elevations, a wraparound porch, and wood batten shutters typical of the Old Nags Head style. Its interior keeps pine floors, beaded board walls and ceilings, and early furnishings, and it has never been fitted with modern mechanical systems. Its importance rests on its survival as the oldest cottage remaining on the sound side of the island, a reminder of the early resort community that gathered there each summer.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1916","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Other: Outer Banks cottage; Old Nags Head style","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"The Stinson family continues to use the cottage; it sits on pilings after the floor was washed out in 1962 and the cottage was raised.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:40.80628-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/79/7198/47719879/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/05001544.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05001544/3ccde0ffb6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05001544/3ccde0ffb6-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jasonspsyche","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Markham-Albertson-Stinson_Cottage.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jasonspsyche</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:Markham-Albertson-Stinson_Cottage.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719879","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markham-Albertson-Stinson_Cottage","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18217048"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/dare-county/markham-albertson-stinson-cottage-05001544/"}