{"nrhp_refnum":"11000973","name":"Bray-Paschal House","other_names":["Sheriff Richard Bray Paschal House","Sheriff R.B. Paschal House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2488 Wade Paschal Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Siler City","county":"Chatham County","state":"NC","lat":35.68311367300004,"lon":-79.48779527899995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2011-12-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A rural farmhouse about three miles southwest of Siler City in Chatham County, North Carolina, south of Wade Paschal Road, combining a late eighteenth-century single-pen log house with a two-story Greek Revival-style frame addition built in 1860. Outbuildings include a blacksmith shop (1863), a stable (1860), and a frame smokehouse (1861).","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house represents three successive vernacular building traditions in rural Piedmont North Carolina: an early log dwelling, a Federal-period remodeling into a hall-parlor plan, and a regional interpretation of Greek Revival style. The log portion is described as the oldest intact documented log dwelling in Chatham County, and the surviving mid-nineteenth-century outbuildings are called rare in the county.","narrative":"Along Wade Paschal Road south of Siler City, the Bray-Paschal House grew in three stages. A single-pen log house with v-notched corners was built around 1790, probably by a member of the Bray family. Around 1810 it gained a rear shed, a full-width engaged front porch, an upper story, and weatherboard siding, and its interior was divided into a hall and parlor with Federal-period mantels. In 1860 Sheriff Richard Bray Paschal added a two-story Greek Revival frame section at the southwest corner, with a pedimented portico and a monumental stone chimney. Paschal's diaries record the construction, along with a stable, a blacksmith shop and a smokehouse on the farm. The house is valued for illustrating how a rural Piedmont family repeatedly remodeled a modest dwelling as its fortunes and social standing changed.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1790-1860","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Early Republic/Federal; Mid-19th Century Greek Revival; vernacular log dwelling","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"The 1860 Greek Revival addition has a deteriorated wood porch floor and the smokehouse is collapsed and ruinous; the house is described as in use with an intact 1860 addition.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.338565-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/87/7174/47717487/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/11000973.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717487","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bray-Paschal_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18169351"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/chatham-county/bray-paschal-house-11000973/"}