{"nrhp_refnum":"10001177","name":"Denning, Thomas Marcellus, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"415 N Second St","address_restricted":false,"city":"Albermarle","county":"Stanly County","state":"NC","lat":35.356148448000056,"lon":-80.19836241599995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2011-01-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Industry"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick Spanish Colonial Revival-style house at 415 North Second Street in Albemarle, the Stanly County seat in North Carolina, on about one-half acre on the south side of Cannon Memorial Park. It was designed in 1924 by Charlotte architect Louis Humbert Asbury Sr. for Thomas Marcellus Denning, superintendent of Wiscassett Mills.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is locally significant in architecture as a distinctive Spanish Colonial Revival design with bold tiled pent cornices and custom sash windows. It also argues the house is associated with Denning, whose long career at Wiscassett Mills, the largest employer in Albemarle for much of the century, shaped the city's industrial history.","narrative":"Designed in 1924 by Charlotte architect Louis Humbert Asbury Sr., this two-story brick house on North Second Street in Albemarle was completed in late 1924 or early 1925 in the Spanish Colonial Revival style. Its red wire-cut brick walls carry deep parapet roofs with paired painted brackets and green roof tiles, and its windows use a custom double-hung sash with a four-pane transom above a single lower pane. A porch with a porte cochere and a glazed side porch extend the design. The house was built for Thomas Marcellus Denning, who came to Albemarle in 1900 as superintendent of Wiscassett Mills and remained with the company until retiring in 1960. The house is considered significant for its architecture and for its association with Denning, whose career shaped the textile industry in the city. Denning lived here until his death in 1962, and the house remained in family ownership until 2006.","period_of_significance":"1924-1960","architect_builder":"Louis Humbert Asbury Sr. (architect)","architectural_style":"Spanish Colonial Revival","criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"Well-preserved; the document describes a current rehabilitation project and notes the house remained in family ownership until 2006.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.932895-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/62/7222/47722262/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/10001177.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10001177/30b9c0b7ec-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10001177/30b9c0b7ec-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:THOMAS_MARCELLUS_DENNING_HOUSE,_STANLY_COUNTY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerrye &amp;amp; Roy Klotz, MD</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:THOMAS_MARCELLUS_DENNING_HOUSE,_STANLY_COUNTY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722262","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Marcellus_Denning_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19946107"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/stanly-county/denning-thomas-marcellus-house-10001177/"}