{"nrhp_refnum":"08000414","name":"Ivey-Ellington House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"135 W. Chatham St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cary","county":"Wake County","state":"NC","lat":35.789013057000034,"lon":-78.78189684099993,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2008-05-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-and-a-half story frame Gothic Revival cottage at 135 W. Chatham Street in Cary, Wake County, North Carolina, built in the early 1870s and set back about one hundred feet on a 0.85-acre lot.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a rare example of Gothic Revival cottage architecture in Wake County, with steep gables, scalloped bargeboards, board-and-batten siding and pointed-arch windows. It is described as the best remaining Gothic Revival domestic example in the county and one of only two board-and-batten Gothic Revival houses there. It also illustrates how pattern-book styles spread along rail lines to rural areas.","narrative":"Set on West Chatham Street in Cary, this one-and-a-half story frame cottage was built in the early 1870s in the Gothic Revival style. Its steeply pitched cross-gable roof, scalloped bargeboards, board-and-batten siding and pointed-arch windows give it the form of the style's pattern-book houses. The house is regarded as the best surviving Gothic Revival domestic building in Wake County, and one of only two in the county with board-and-batten siding. Its T-shaped plan and interior woodwork, including egg-and-dart mantels and a turned newel stair, remain largely intact. Its significance lies in its architecture and in how it shows Andrew Jackson Downing's ideas and rail-borne building trends reaching a growing railroad town in the late nineteenth century. A front porch was rebuilt after Hurricane Hazel destroyed the original in 1954.","period_of_significance":"c. 1870","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Gothic Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Restored for commercial rental use; the front porch was reconstructed around 2000 after Hurricane Hazel damage in 1954, and the house had been vacant for several years before restoration.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.796657-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/37/7185/47718537/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/08000414.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000414/65a1b411bb-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000414/65a1b411bb-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Pithon314","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ivey-Ellington_House_Front.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Pithon314</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ivey-Ellington_House_Front.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718537","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivey-Ellington_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19986668"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wake-county/ivey-ellington-house-08000414/"}