{"nrhp_refnum":"08000495","name":"Carson-Andrews Mill and Ben F.W. Andrews House","other_names":["Andrews Mill"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Both sides of NC 1007, E., S., and W. of jct. with NC 1796","address_restricted":false,"city":"Washburn","county":"Rutherford County","state":"NC","lat":35.40989928400006,"lon":-81.83805238876155,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2008-06-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Industry"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story-with-attic heavy timber frame grist mill on Roberson Creek near Washburn, with the Ben F. W. Andrews House and grounds on Andrews Mill Road in rural east central Rutherford County, North Carolina. The mill was erected ca. 1830-1835 by James Withrow Carson.","why_significant":"The mill is described as the oldest known frame grist mill in North Carolina west of the Yadkin River and one of the oldest grist mills in the state, with statewide significance in architecture and industry. The Colonial Revival house, completed in 1908 for Ben F. W. Andrews, is presented as an important local example of its style in rural Rutherford County. The property's milling history is traced back to a 1767 land grant.","narrative":"Along Roberson Creek in rural east central Rutherford County stands a heavy timber frame grist mill, built ca. 1830-1835 by James Withrow Carson on a mortared stone foundation. Its unpainted weatherboards, shallow molded eaves and window surrounds show a transitional Federal and Greek Revival finish. The mill is regarded as the oldest known frame grist mill in North Carolina west of the Yadkin River. Its only notable alteration is a louvered cupola added by the Andrews family, probably in the 1880s. Beside it, the house built in 1908 for Ben F. W. Andrews is a two-story Colonial Revival dwelling. The property was a milling site from 1767, when Thomas Welch received a grant for land including a mill shoal, and it passed through the Cansler and Carson families before the Andrews family acquired it between 1878 and 1886. Andrews added saw and planing mills and a cotton gin. Industrial activity largely ended in the 1930s.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1830-1927","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal/Greek Revival (mill); Colonial Revival (house)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Mill structurally sound and remarkably well-preserved; unpainted weatherboard sheathing; some water damage in the northeast corner; the Andrews barn was pulled down in 2004.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.57477-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/84/7221/47722184/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/08000495.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000495/dfed9a75c4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000495/dfed9a75c4-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Upstateherd","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ben_F.W._Andrews_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:Ben_F.W._Andrews_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722184","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carson-Andrews_Mill_and_Ben_F.W._Andrews_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19871918"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/rutherford-county/carson-andrews-mill-and-ben-f-w-andrews-house-08000495/"}