{"nrhp_refnum":"10000600","name":"Blake House","other_names":["Newington","Royal Pines","Joseph B. Pyatt House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"150 Royal Pines Dr","address_restricted":false,"city":"Arden","county":"Buncombe County","state":"NC","lat":35.474401526000065,"lon":-82.51661425999998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2010-08-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, five-bay limestone house built about 1850 in Arden, Buncombe County, North Carolina, originally called Newington and associated with Dr. Blake, with a 1907 rear addition and a c. 1985 carriage house on the lot.","why_significant":"The house combines high-style Gothic Revival exterior features with Greek Revival-influenced interior finishes, and its plan relates to a design in A.J. Downing's Cottage Residences (1842). It is also tied to the Blake family and to the 1920s Royal Pines subdivision that grew from the estate. The nomination certifies local significance.","narrative":"Built around 1850 in Arden, Buncombe County, this limestone house sits near the center of a three-quarter-acre lot, surrounded by an early twentieth-century neighborhood. The two-story, five-bay building has a hip roof, steep cross gables with trefoil vents, curving bargeboards, and limestone drip moldings over windows and doors. Walls are rough-cut stone twenty-two inches thick. Inside, a center-hall plan carries Greek Revival touches such as two-panel doors and post-and-lintel mantels, along with walnut trim, plaster medallions and a three-run staircase. A kitchen wing was added in 1907, with later kitchen additions in the 1940s and 1970s to 1980. The estate, once called Newington, passed through the Blake family and was sold in 1925 to developers who platted the Royal Pines subdivision and renamed the house for it. After several owners, it became a bed and breakfast in 1990. Its design draws on A.J. Downing's Cottage Residences.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Gothic Revival; Greek Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Currently operating as a bed and breakfast, with a c. 1985 carriage house used as a residence and guest cottage.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:53.985267-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/35/7191/47719135/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/10000600.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000600/0f2944bfb7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000600/0f2944bfb7-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Bill Fitzpatrick","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blake_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Bill Fitzpatrick</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:Blake_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719135","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blake_House_(Arden,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17985951"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/buncombe-county/blake-house-10000600/"}