{"nrhp_refnum":"07001407","name":"Leslie-Taylor House","other_names":["Maple Lawn"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"270 Carthage Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Vass","county":"Moore County","state":"NC","lat":35.257394616000056,"lon":-79.29621319984389,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2008-01-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story, double-pile frame house on the north side of Carthage Road in Vass, Moore County, North Carolina, with its smokehouse and carriage house. It was built around 1879 for local physician Dr. James Addison Leslie.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is one of the fullest examples of Victorian Eclecticism in Moore County, combining steeply pitched gables, decorated bargeboards, bay windows, brackets and sawnwork detail in a single composition. It describes the Late Victorian Gothic style as rare in the county and says the house and its contemporary outbuildings retain a high degree of integrity.","narrative":"Built around 1879 in Vass for physician James Addison Leslie, the Leslie-Taylor House is a three-story, double-pile frame house with a clipped-side-gable roof and corbelled chimneys. Its exterior combines Italianate and Gothic Revival features, including three steep Gothic gables with sawn bargeboards, a rooftop balcony with a sawnwork balustrade, bracketed door hoods, and a nearly full-width first-floor porch. The interior keeps elaborate public rooms with carved newel posts, paneled walls, and Gothic-influenced mantels. A seven-sided smokehouse and a Gothic-influenced carriage house of the same date stand on the roughly eleven-acre parcel. The house is regarded as one of the fullest examples of Victorian Eclecticism in Moore County, and the Late Victorian Gothic style is considered rare in the county. The original family has held the property since its construction, and most later additions are at the rear.","period_of_significance":"Ca. 1879","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Victorian Eclecticism (Late Victorian Gothic / Victorian Eclectic), with Italianate and Gothic Revival features","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"The house remains in the possession of the Leslie-Taylor family descendants and the original rear additions date from the 1950s and later.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.137294-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/36/7214/47721436/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/07001407.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721436","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie-Taylor_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19875086"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/moore-county/leslie-taylor-house-07001407/"}