{"nrhp_refnum":"70000436","name":"Allen House","other_names":["See Also:Alamance Battleground State Historic Site"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"SW of Burlington on Rte. 1, off SC 62","address_restricted":false,"city":"Burlington","county":"Alamance County","state":"NC","lat":36.00930204500003,"lon":-79.52085650599997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1970-02-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story hewn log dwelling with a gable roof of wooden shingles and a stone foundation, built about 1782 in the Snow Camp Community and moved in 1966 to Alamance Battleground near Burlington, Alamance County, North Carolina.","why_significant":"The house was built by John Allen, a farmer, blacksmith and storekeeper sympathetic to the Regulator movement, whose sister married Regulator leader Herman Husband. It was restored as a typical rural Piedmont homestead of the Regulator period. The nomination calls it an outstanding example of log construction and one of the few eighteenth century houses in the area with a fully recorded history.","narrative":"This two-story hewn log house was built about 1782 by John Allen in the Snow Camp Community of Alamance County, on land granted to his father in 1756. Allen was a farmer, blacksmith and storekeeper who sympathized with the Regulators, Piedmont settlers who protested official abuses and eastern domination of colonial government. His sister Amy married Regulator leader Herman Husband. The house has a shingled gable roof, stone foundation, shed porch on hewn posts, and a single large interior room with exposed log walls, a paneled fireplace wall, a closet and an enclosed spiral stair. It passed through several generations of the Allen family before the heirs gave it to the state. In 1966 it was moved to Alamance Battleground and restored as a typical rural Piedmont homestead of the Regulator period. It is recognized as an outstanding example of log construction and as one of the few eighteenth century houses in the area with a fully recorded history.","period_of_significance":"18th Century","architect_builder":"John Allen","architectural_style":"Hewn log construction","criteria":[],"status_note":"Moved to Alamance Battleground in 1966 and restored by the state as a homestead dwelling; owned by the State Department of Archives and History.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:57.009019-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/42/7188/47718842/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/70000436.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/70000436/fd8df82ef6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/70000436/fd8df82ef6-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"JERRYE &amp; ROY KLOTZ MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ALLEN_HOUSE.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">JERRYE &amp;amp; ROY KLOTZ MD</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:ALLEN_HOUSE.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718842","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_House_(Burlington,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17560904"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/alamance-county/allen-house-70000436/"}