{"nrhp_refnum":"12001090","name":"Marion House and Marion Brothers Store","other_names":["Jubal E. Marion--Firchard Nathaniel Marion House","Oakcrest"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"7034 Siloam Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Siloam","county":"Surry County","state":"NC","lat":36.287069555000045,"lon":-80.5640747940046,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2012-12-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Commerce"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"The Marion House, a two-story Neo-Classical Revival house on a hilltop above the Yadkin River at Siloam, Surry County, North Carolina, and the Marion Brothers Store, a two-story brick commercial building of about 1894 on Siloam Road near the railroad. The nominated property is about thirty-three acres.","why_significant":"The house is cited as an excellent domestic example of the Neo-Classical Revival style in Surry County and the only such example in rural Surry. The Marion Brothers Store is described as the most architecturally impressive rural store of its era in the county and the only surviving brick example, reflecting the commercial growth Siloam enjoyed after the railroad arrived in 1890.","narrative":"Along the north bank of the Yadkin River, the Marion House crowns a hill above cultivated bottom land. Jubal Early Marion likely built its first one-story frame section with Greek Revival details in 1861. His daughter Mollie and her husband Nat Marion remodeled it in 1895 and enlarged it to two stories in 1913 in the Neo-Classical Revival style, with a two-story Ionic portico and a wraparound Tuscan-columned porch. Winston-Salem architect Willard C. Northup is credited with the plans, though the house as built differs from them. Nearby, the brick Marion Brothers Store, built about 1894, housed a hardware store, a roller mill and living quarters. Its survival as the only brick rural store of its kind in the county, together with the house, documents the village's commercial life from the railroad's arrival in 1890 until about 1940.","period_of_significance":"1861-1913","architect_builder":"Willard C. Northup (architect)","architectural_style":"Neo-Classical Revival \"Southern Colonial\"","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The store and mill closed around 1940; the house remains in family ownership and occupancy.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:40.856908-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/10/7223/47722310/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/12001090.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12001090/f803624cf9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12001090/f803624cf9-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Kathryn Meyer","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marion_House_90a_10-2-14.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:Marion_House_90a_10-2-14.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722310","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_House_and_Marion_Brothers_Store","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21188450"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/surry-county/marion-house-and-marion-brothers-store-12001090/"}