{"nrhp_refnum":"08000778","name":"Monteith, Elias Brendle, House and Outbuildings","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"111 Hometown Place Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Dillsboro","county":"Jackson County","state":"NC","lat":35.368183743500055,"lon":-83.24316447125162,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2008-08-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A farmstead in Dillsboro, Jackson County, North Carolina, with a ca. 1908 two-and-one-half-story Craftsman house and a group of domestic and agricultural outbuildings, built for Elias Brendle Monteith on land he bought in 1907.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is locally significant under Criterion C as a fashionable Craftsman residence with an unusual double-pile, center-hall plan and a porch on all four sides. The surrounding ca. 1908 outbuildings show the range of support buildings needed for daily, self-sufficient life in Jackson County in the early twentieth century.","narrative":"Set between Scotts Creek and the railroad in Dillsboro, this farmstead centers on a Craftsman house completed around 1908 for Elias Brendle Monteith, who bought the land in 1907. The two-and-one-half-story frame house has a front-gable roof with exposed rafter ends and knee braces, an original scalloped tin shingle roof, and a center-hall plan with beaded board walls and ceilings. A porch wraps all four sides, though it may have been added in the 1920s. Around it stand a wash house and cannery, a greenhouse, a spring house, sheds, outhouses, a slaughterhouse and a barn, most dating to about 1908. Together they show how a family met most of its own needs through gardening, canning and farming. Monteith also worked in local merchandising and served as Dillsboro postmaster, and his two daughters lived on the property until 2001. The property is significant locally for its architecture and its intact range of domestic support buildings.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1908","architect_builder":"unknown","architectural_style":"Craftsman","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Current function is listed as vacant/not in use; the family owned the farmstead until the younger daughter died in 2001. The former gas station house is still rented. The slaughterhouse is in poor condition.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:53.547667-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/24/7209/47720924/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/08000778.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000778/23c30a6fa2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000778/23c30a6fa2-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"RichardKenni","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monteith_Farmstead_Dillsboro,_NC.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">RichardKenni</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:Monteith_Farmstead_Dillsboro,_NC.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720924","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elias_Brendle_Monteith_House_and_Outbuildings","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19987155"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/jackson-county/monteith-elias-brendle-house-and-outbuildings-08000778/"}