{"nrhp_refnum":"11000483","name":"Carson-Young House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"842 Major Conley Rd.,","address_restricted":false,"city":"Marion","county":"McDowell County","state":"NC","lat":35.70781148750004,"lon":-82.0536789286553,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2011-07-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A ca. 1860 two-story Greek Revival-influenced I-house with an associated brick school house and barn, on about twelve acres north of Highway 70 at the north end of Major Conley Road, roughly three miles from the center of Marion in McDowell County, North Carolina.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house, school house and barn form a rare intact collection of mid-nineteenth-century buildings in the county. The house combines Greek Revival features such as a pedimented porch, sidelights and transoms, and pilastered mantels with later-century details like steeper gables and chamfered posts. The brick school house is described as possibly the only surviving mid-nineteenth-century school house in the area, and the barn as the only barn of its period in the area.","narrative":"Built ca. 1860 by John Carson, grandson of Colonel John Carson, this two-story I-house sits on a knoll in the Pleasant Gardens area northwest of Marion. Its center-hall plan, central two-story pedimented porch, sidelights and transoms reflect the Greek Revival style, while its steeper gables and chamfered posts reflect later decades. Inside, the stair and several mantels retain original woodwork, including cherry mantels with hand-planed marks. Carson served as a Confederate officer and later worked as a railroad contractor on the Western North Carolina Railroad. Thomas B. Young bought the house in 1877 and added turned balusters and scrollwork to the upper porch. Later owners, the Rabb family, ran a grocery business in Marion and farmed the land from 1937 onward and made most of the interior and kitchen changes around 1951. The house, a two-story brick school house and a barn share a rare mid-nineteenth-century setting that few other properties in the county preserve.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1860","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival; Other: I-house","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Currently an active farm property; the house is described as having been altered ca. 1951 with a rear kitchen addition.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.897738-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/27/7212/47721227/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/11000483.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000483/a84b74c5b0-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000483/a84b74c5b0-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"rossograph","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carson-Young_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">rossograph</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carson-Young_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721227","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carson%E2%80%93Young_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19460872"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/mcdowell-county/carson-young-house-11000483/"}