{"nrhp_refnum":"05001552","name":"Washburn Historic District (Boundary Increase)","other_names":["Washburn (Bertha)-Davis (Daisy Washburn), House"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"1037 Gun Club Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Bostic","county":"Rutherford County","state":"NC","lat":35.39199491100004,"lon":-81.81794588099996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-01-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A boundary increase to the Washburn Historic District at the Washburn crossroads on Gun Club Road in Bostic, Rutherford County, North Carolina, comprising a one-story farm house (the Washburn-Davis House, ca. 1905-1908) and two outbuildings: a storage building (ca. 1943-1944) and a corn crib (ca. 1920-1930) on about two and one-fifth acres.","why_significant":"The addition is argued to complete the family's occupation of the crossroads, representing the earliest surviving Washburn family residence in the district and an example of the family's expansion into rental and tenant-farming properties. It is said to add to the existing group of early twentieth-century crossroads buildings that together form the best preserved early twentieth-century crossroads community in the county. The boundary increase extends the period of significance to begin at ca. 1905.","narrative":"Beside Gun Club Road in Bostic, Rutherford County, stands a small one-story farm house built about 1905 to 1908 by Bertha Washburn, youngest daughter of Reuben and Sarah Washburn, on a two-acre lot from the family lands. Its paired offset blocks and center-hall plan are typical of its period, although a 1961 renovation added German siding, replacement windows, a concrete block foundation and the first indoor bathroom. Beside it are a frame storage building of about 1943-1944 and a corn crib of about 1920-1930. The house was the family's residence until Sarah Washburn died in 1910, and afterward it became rental property, leased with farmland to tenants. It is listed for its association with the Washburn family's mercantile and agricultural activities at the crossroads, which the family ran for four generations, and for the way its rental use reflects the wider economy that the store served.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1905-1950","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Tenant-occupied; the house and outbuildings have stood unchanged since the 1961 renovation.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.693804-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/90/7221/47722190/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/05001552.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"02000056","name":"Washburn Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/washburn-historic-district-02000056/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722190","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/rutherford-county/washburn-historic-district-boundary-increase-05001552/"}