{"nrhp_refnum":"07000091","name":"Smith, William Rankin and Elizabeth Wharton, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"437 Brightwood Church Rd., NC 2758, 0.62 mi. N of US 70","address_restricted":false,"city":"Whitsett","county":"Guilford County","state":"NC","lat":36.07911676100008,"lon":-79.58064173299994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2007-02-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story hall-parlor house with a later room and engaged porch, in the coastal cottage form, located in eastern Guilford County, North Carolina, on Brightwood Church Road near Whitsett. It was built circa 1846 for William Rankin Smith and Elizabeth Wharton Smith and moved about six-tenths of a mile north of its original site in 2005.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a locally significant example of mid-nineteenth-century vernacular architecture in the Piedmont, combining a hall-parlor plan with an engaged porch of a type more common in eastern North Carolina. It is described as an increasingly rare small residence of this kind, and as a good example of the houses built by the county's middling farmers. The move is treated as qualifying under the rule for properties removed from their original location because the architectural value is the primary basis for listing.","narrative":"A one-story side-gable house on Brightwood Church Road in eastern Guilford County was built circa 1846 as a hall-parlor dwelling, according to local tradition, for William Rankin Smith and his wife Elizabeth Wharton Smith. The Smiths added a room and a full-width engaged porch around 1854, and a two-room rear wing was added circa 1885 by D. P. Foust, the next owner. The house was moved six-tenths of a mile north of its original Hillsborough Road setting in June 2005 to save it from demolition during redevelopment of the tract. It is regarded as a substantially intact example of a form more common in eastern North Carolina, and an uncommon one in the Piedmont. The interior retains Greek Revival doors and a post-and-lintel mantel, along with a vernacular Federal mantel. Its builder's family was tied to Bethel Presbyterian Church and to the Smith and Rankin farms of the area.","period_of_significance":"circa 1846-circa 1885","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Mid-19th Century/Greek Revival; Coastal Cottage","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Moved in June 2005 to a new site on Brightwood Church Road; the 1945 additions and exterior stucco were removed during the move.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.870677-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/20/7205/47720520/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/07000091.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720520","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rankin_and_Elizabeth_Wharton_Smith_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24436234"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/guilford-county/smith-william-rankin-and-elizabeth-wharton-house-07000091/"}