{"nrhp_refnum":"12000217","name":"Atkinson, Samuel Josiah, House","other_names":["Hogan Creek Farm"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"586 Atkinson Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Siloam","county":"Surry County","state":"NC","lat":36.296165729500046,"lon":-80.56200223274386,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2012-04-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Art"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame I-house completed in 1893 on a farm of about 155 acres in the Siloam community of rural southeastern Surry County, North Carolina, with a rear ell and a set of domestic and agricultural outbuildings.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a well-preserved example of a traditional Surry County I-house with touches of late Victorian stylishness, notably its sawn mantels and elaborate decorative painting such as wood graining, faux marble and stenciling. The farm's outbuildings add to its agricultural setting, and the property has stayed in the Atkinson family. It also reflects the farming and merchant career of Samuel Josiah Atkinson.","narrative":"Completed in 1893 on a hill above Hogan Creek in Siloam, this two-story frame I-house was built for Samuel Josiah Atkinson, a farmer who also ran a general merchandise business. It has a brick foundation, weatherboard siding, a side-gable roof, paired central chimneys, and a long rear ell that makes it larger than most houses of its type in the county. Inside, a center-hall plan holds sawn post-and-lintel mantels and unusual painted decoration: mahogany-style wood graining, firebox bricks painted to resemble marble, and a stenciled cornice with musical lyres. The surrounding farm retains a smokehouse, corn crib, feed barn, and two log tobacco barns, most dating from 1893 to about 1900. A ca. 1830 log house, moved from nearby Eldora Township in 2009, is also on the land. The property was listed for its architecture and for its intact agricultural setting, and it has never left family ownership.","period_of_significance":"1893 to ca. 1900","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian; I-house; no style","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"The house is furnished as a home and used for special occasions by its owners, who live elsewhere. A relocated ca. 1830 log house on the property is still being reconstructed.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:54.664806-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/8/7223/47722308/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/12000217.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12000217/b1ccdaccfd-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12000217/b1ccdaccfd-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Kathryn Meyer","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Samuel_Josiah_Atkinson_House_01.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Kathryn Meyer</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:Samuel_Josiah_Atkinson_House_01.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722308","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Josiah_Atkinson_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20708553"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/surry-county/atkinson-samuel-josiah-house-12000217/"}