{"nrhp_refnum":"08000813","name":"Melton-Davis House","other_names":["Melton, Cannie, House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"477 DePriest Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Bostic","county":"Rutherford County","state":"NC","lat":35.43178362500004,"lon":-81.81438166199996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2008-08-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A ca. 1904 one-story frame Queen Anne-style farmhouse with two surviving agricultural outbuildings on about 2.14 acres on DePriest Road near Bostic and Sunshine in northeast Rutherford County, North Carolina.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a remarkably intact example of the sizable, simply finished one-story Queen Anne frame houses built as farm seats in rural Rutherford County around the turn of the twentieth century. It survived essentially unaltered as a rental property of the Davis family from 1922. The barn and setting add to its value as a farmstead on a modest fifty-acre holding.","narrative":"Built about 1904, this one-story weatherboarded frame house sits on a rise above DePriest Road in northeast Rutherford County, North Carolina, with a barn, a granary, a shed and a pump house nearby. It began as the home of a small fifty-acre farm. The house has an asymmetrical Queen Anne form, with two gable-front blocks flanking a center hall, a bracketed front porch, diagonal-board gables with louvered vents, and original mantels and doors inside. Changes have been limited mainly to a concrete block foundation and a bathroom added in 1976-1977. The Davis family owned it as a rental from 1922, and members of the Melton family farmed cotton and corn here for about three decades afterward. The house is regarded as an intact example of the modest one-story farm seats built around the turn of the twentieth century. The barn, dated ca. 1904 to ca. 1915, contributes to the farmstead, while the granary, shed and pump house are later.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1904-ca.1915","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Queen Anne","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Rental property since 1922 with a succession of renters; the barn and granary are deteriorated, and the house was underpinned and given a bathroom in 1976-1977.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:54.39088-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/68/7221/47722168/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/08000813.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000813/a37ef5b502-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000813/a37ef5b502-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Upstateherd","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Melton-Davis_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:Melton-Davis_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722168","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melton-Davis_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19987075"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/rutherford-county/melton-davis-house-08000813/"}