{"nrhp_refnum":"08001016","name":"Purefoy-Chappell House and Outbuildings","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1255 S. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Wake Forest","county":"Wake County","state":"NC","lat":35.963852401000054,"lon":-78.51779438299997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2008-10-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A house with outbuildings at 1255 South Main Street in the former village of Forestville, now part of Wake Forest, Wake County, North Carolina. The original one-room house dates to about 1838 and was built for James S. Purefoy.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the property meets Criterion C for architecture as a rare survivor of once-common forms: an antebellum one-room house with rear shed room, a detached kitchen/dining building, and an 1862 doctor's office with apothecary shelves. It meets the registration requirements set out for antebellum houses and outbuildings in the Wake County multiple property documentation. It is locally significant.","narrative":"Built around 1838 for James S. Purefoy, this house stands in Forestville, a former railroad village now within Wake Forest, North Carolina. The original heavy timber-frame section has one room, a loft and a rear shed room, each finished with a fireplace and simple Greek Revival mantels. A detached kitchen/dining building of the same date was later joined to the house by a 1974 hyphen. A two-story wing was added around 1895, and the property also includes a ca. 1838 smoke house and a ca. 1862 doctor's office with its apothecary shelves intact, built by Dr. Leroy Chappell. Purefoy was a Baptist minister, businessman and postmaster. The property was recognized for architecture because the early one-room house form, the kitchen building and the doctor's office are rare survivors of once-common building types in Wake County. A later barn, well house and greenhouse are considered noncontributing.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1838; ca. 1862; ca. 1895","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Other: One-Room House; Greek Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"The house is still in use as a single dwelling with secondary structures; a hyphen containing a modern kitchen was added in 1974.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:53.910101-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/67/7185/47718567/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/08001016.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08001016/edd6d1f155-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08001016/edd6d1f155-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"ResearcherQ","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Purefoy-Chappell_House_-_front_-_Wake_Forest.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">ResearcherQ</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:Purefoy-Chappell_House_-_front_-_Wake_Forest.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718567","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purefoy-Chappell_House_and_Outbuildings","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22025337"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wake-county/purefoy-chappell-house-and-outbuildings-08001016/"}