{"nrhp_refnum":"10000604","name":"Lynncote","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"3318 Lynn Rd","address_restricted":false,"city":"Tryon","county":"Polk County","state":"NC","lat":35.222838493500035,"lon":-82.24347028547183,"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 Tudor Revival-style house on a wooded promontory just outside the limits of Tryon in southern Polk County, North Carolina, built 1927-1928 on the surviving first-story stone walls of an earlier house that burned in 1916. It is accompanied by a lodge and a remodeled workshop that are part of the same property.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house embodies the distinctive characteristics of the Tudor Revival style and of picturesque design, with stone masonry, half-timbering, hand-carved details and irregular massing set within terraced landscaping and stone retaining walls. It identifies the architect Erle Stillwell and the sculptor Harold Erskine as designers, and the carved woodwork as the work of local Tryon artisans.","narrative":"Built between 1927 and 1928 on a wooded hilltop north of Tryon, Lynncote is a Tudor Revival house designed by Hendersonville architect Erle Stillwell for Carroll and Susan Erskine Rogers. Its random rubble granite walls were partly salvaged from an 1890s house on the same site that burned in 1916. The asymmetrical east façade has a cantilevered half-timbered entrance gable with decorative bargeboards and carved lion's heads by Harold Erskine, and the roof is covered in Ludowici clay tiles with deliberately sagging ridgelines. Interior and exterior woodwork, including a carved garbage door by Susan Rogers, reflects local Tryon craftsmanship. The house is regarded as a well-preserved example of the picturesque Tudor Revival style in western North Carolina. Its terraces, stone walls and archway, set within a wooded hilltop site overlooking the Pacolet River valley, are considered integral to its design and to its character as an early twentieth-century country residence.","period_of_significance":"1926-1928","architect_builder":"Erle G. Stillwell (architect); Wright J. Gaines (builder); Harold Erskine (architect)","architectural_style":"Tudor Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Occupied as a family residence; the Lodge was sold out of the family in 1985 and the property has remained in family ownership.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.332692-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/44/7218/47721844/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/10000604.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000604/6e7e5cd25f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000604/6e7e5cd25f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Bigskybill","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lynncote.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Bigskybill</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:Lynncote.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"100007969","name":"Lynncote Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/lynncote-historic-district-100007969/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721844","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynncote","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19986884"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/polk-county/lynncote-10000604/"}