{"nrhp_refnum":"14000334","name":"Pugh House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"103 Page St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Morrisville","county":"Wake County","state":"NC","lat":35.82069463500005,"lon":-78.83679395899998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2014-06-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Art"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame Italianate house at 10018 Chapel Hill Road (US 54) in Morrisville, Wake County, North Carolina, built about 1870, with a detached frame smokehouse built in the 1880s. The house is noted for its decorative front porch with sawn ornament.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is an important example of vernacular Italianate design, with its sawn porch, interior features and smokehouse. It also argues the house is significant for its association with artist and art educator Mabel Pugh, who worked there from the 1920s and later headed the art department at Peace College.","narrative":"Frame two-story Italianate house in Morrisville, Wake County, built about 1870 for merchant and postmaster James M. Pugh and his wife Mary Ellen. Its defining feature is a hip-roofed front porch with slender posts, round-arched spans and sawn ornament in the spandrels and balustrade. The center-passage interior has a two-run stair with turned newel and balusters, and a parlor mantel combining Greek Revival form with a Gothic-influenced frieze. Beside the house stands a frame smokehouse of the 1880s with Queen Anne-style trusswork and quatrefoil vents. The property is listed for its architecture and for its association with Mabel Pugh, who was born in the house, trained at Peace College and the Pennsylvania Academy, and built a career as a graphic artist and portraitist. Her block prints and illustrations, including the 1933 children's book Little Carolina Blue Bonnet, drew on the town. She headed the art department at Peace College from 1936 to 1960.","period_of_significance":"Ca. 1870, ca. 1880s, 1923-1953","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"Contributing buildings in the Morrisville area; aluminum siding and 1970s alterations noted; occupied by present owners since 1978.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.402476-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/99/7185/47718599/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/03000932.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":null,"wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wake-county/pugh-house-14000334/"}