{"nrhp_refnum":"07001376","name":"Reinhardt-Craig House, Kiln and Pottery Shop","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"3171 Cat Square Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Vale","county":"Lincoln County","state":"NC","lat":35.56307716800006,"lon":-81.42927361599999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2008-01-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Art","Architecture","Industry"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A rural pottery complex on 2.685 acres on Cat Square Road near Vale, Lincoln County, North Carolina, with a house, groundhog kiln, pottery shop and pug mill. Harvey Reinhardt built the house, kiln and shop about 1933-36, and Burlon Craig later used them.","why_significant":"The property represents the Catawba Valley alkaline-glaze pottery tradition, which potters have practiced in western Lincoln County for over two hundred years. It preserves Harvey Reinhardt's 1930s pottery operation and the work of folk potter Burlon Craig, who kept the tradition going. Its kiln was North Carolina's oldest continually operated groundhog kiln until Craig's death in 2002.","narrative":"Near Vale in western Lincoln County, North Carolina, this small complex preserves a working pottery site from the Catawba Valley folk tradition. Harvey Reinhardt built a one-story gabled frame house, a brick groundhog kiln and a clapboard pottery shop between about 1933 and 1936, on land that had belonged to his family. The kiln is a wood-fired, cross-draft design with a firebox, brick arch and chimney, made from more than 125,000 bricks fired by Harvey and his brother Enoch. After Reinhardt left pottery in the 1940s, Burlon Craig bought the property in 1945 and worked there for decades as a farmer and then full-time potter. He built the surviving pug mill in 1949 from salvaged metal parts and a tractor drive. Until his death in 2002 the kiln was the state's oldest continually operated groundhog kiln. Its association with the Reinhardt family and Craig, who carried the alkaline-glaze tradition forward, is the basis for its listing.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Harvey Reinhardt (house, kiln, pottery shop); Burlon Craig (pug mill, 1949)","architectural_style":"Other/gable front house; Other/Groundhog Kiln","criteria":[],"status_note":"Historic resources remain in their original layout. The kiln operated until Burlon Craig's death in 2002, the shop is used for storage, and the site hosts an annual pottery festival begun in 2004.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:54.256468-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/96/7210/47721096/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/07001376.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07001376/a1737b7ee4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07001376/a1737b7ee4-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Upstateherd","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reinhardt-Craig_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Upstateherd</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:Reinhardt-Craig_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721096","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhardt-Craig_House,_Kiln_and_Pottery_Shop","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19987777"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/lincoln-county/reinhardt-craig-house-kiln-and-pottery-shop-07001376/"}