{"nrhp_refnum":"72000956","name":"Cool Spring Place","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"119 N. Cool Spring St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fayetteville","county":"Cumberland County","state":"NC","lat":35.05237611000007,"lon":-78.87481580899998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1972-10-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Cool Spring Place, also called Cool Spring Tavern, is a two-story frame house at 119 North Cool Spring Street in Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina, built in 1788 as a tavern.","why_significant":"The form argues it is believed to be the oldest existing structure in Fayetteville and survived the fire of 1831. It is an unusually gracious example of Upper Cape Fear Federal-period architecture, with fine Palladian entrance and interior woodwork. It is also closely associated with the Fayetteville Convention of 1789, when North Carolina ratified the U.S. Constitution.","narrative":"Cool Spring Place is a large two-story frame house on North Cool Spring Street in Fayetteville, built in 1788 as Cool Spring Tavern and named for a nearby well-known spring. Dolphin Davis and Nathan and Elisha Stedman built it, probably expecting trade from delegates to the 1789 state convention. That convention ratified the United States Constitution, and Richard Caswell, its presiding officer, is reputed to have stayed at the tavern. Elisha Stedman later made it a private residence. The five-bay house has a double porch, a Palladian entrance with a pierced garland fanlight, large end chimneys of Flemish bond brick, and a center-hall plan with Federal mantels and arched hall openings. It is believed to be the oldest surviving structure in Fayetteville, having come through the 1831 fire, and it shows the refined craftsmanship of the city's late eighteenth-century builders.","period_of_significance":"18th Century (1788)","architect_builder":"Dolphin Davis and Nathan and Elisha Stedman (built the tavern)","architectural_style":"Federal (Upper Cape Fear architecture of the Federal period)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is stated as excellent and altered, on its original site; occupied and used as a private residence.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:56.493802-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/28/7198/47719828/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/72000956.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"99000779","name":"Fayetteville Downtown Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/fayetteville-downtown-historic-district-99000779/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719828","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_Spring_Place","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18152469"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/cumberland-county/cool-spring-place-72000956/"}