{"nrhp_refnum":"70000445","name":"Fort Macon","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Bogue Point, on Fort Macon Rd., 4 mi. E of Atlantic Beach","address_restricted":false,"city":"Atlantic Beach","county":"Carteret County","state":"NC","lat":34.69604665500003,"lon":-76.67873361199997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1970-02-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Military","Engineering","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Fort Macon is a pentagonal brick and stone coastal defense fort at Bogue Point, at the east end of Bogue Island near Atlantic Beach, Carteret County, North Carolina. Construction began in 1826 and the fort was first occupied by troops in December 1834.","why_significant":"The nomination calls Fort Macon probably the most outstanding brick structure of its era still standing in North Carolina, and one of the foremost examples of its type of military architecture. It also served through the Civil War, the Spanish American War and World War II. Robert E. Lee began the stone jetty system that protects the site, and several later Civil War generals served there.","narrative":"Fort Macon is a pentagonal coastal fortification at the eastern tip of Bogue Island, built to protect Beaufort Harbor. Work began in 1826 after two earlier forts on Bogue Point were lost or abandoned, and troops first occupied it in December 1834. The walls are mainly local brick, with imported Connecticut freestone and some granite. The nomination describes twenty-four casemates, three magazines, a moat and a sodded glacis, and praises the brickwork as better than most in North Carolina of the 1820s and 1830s. Robert E. Lee recommended and began the stone jetties that still help protect the site from the sea. Confederate forces took the fort in 1861 and Union forces captured it in April 1862. It later served as a military prison, was garrisoned again in the Spanish American War and World War II, and became a state park in 1924. The nomination ranks it among the state's finest brick structures and a leading example of its military type.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Capt. Wm. Tell Poussin (first known drawings, possibly the architect); construction supervised by Lt. Wm. A. Eliason, Capt. J.L. Smith and Lt. G. Dutton; master masons from Philadelphia and Alexandria, with a largely local, mostly enslaved labor force","architectural_style":"Military architecture with Greek Revival interior woodwork and ironwork","criteria":[],"status_note":"Owned by the State of North Carolina and used as a park and museum. Condition is listed as fair and the fort is described as unaltered, with restoration work done by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:57.757913-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/18/7194/47719418/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/70000445.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/70000445/d45e8d7b8e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/70000445/d45e8d7b8e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Kevinbercaw","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fort_Macon_Shoreward_Side.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Kevinbercaw</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:Fort_Macon_Shoreward_Side.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719418","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106635799"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/carteret-county/fort-macon-70000445/"}