{"nrhp_refnum":"72000976","name":"Cedar Grove","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"3 mi. W of Huntersville off U.S. 21","address_restricted":false,"city":"Huntersville","county":"Mecklenburg County","state":"NC","lat":35.39457468000006,"lon":-80.89841235999995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1972-02-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Cedar Grove is a two-story brick plantation house near Huntersville in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, built between 1831 and 1833 by James G. Torrence on land inherited from his father.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it the largest and probably finest antebellum brick house in Mecklenburg County. It represents Piedmont houses of the Federal and Greek Revival eras, combining traditional gable parapets and corbeled cornices with a Doric porch and refined interior woodwork. It also documents a large cotton plantation and the construction practices of the 1830s.","narrative":"Cedar Grove is a large brick plantation house on a knoll among cedar trees near Huntersville. James G. Torrence built it between 1831 and 1833 on land inherited from his father, Hugh. The two-story house is laid in Flemish bond and has tall stepped parapets that double as chimneys, corbeled brick gable cornices, and Greek Revival porches with Doric columns at front and rear. Inside, a central hall with a spiral staircase divides spacious rooms with large windows, molded plaster cornices and Doric or Ionic mantels. Torrence ran a plantation worked by about forty-five enslaved people, sent cotton to Charleston, kept a store and mined gold. Receipts for hardware, metalwork and glass show how much of the house depended on goods from northeastern cities. Passing to his descendants, the house fell into disrepair during a long period of absentee ownership before its 1949 restoration. It is regarded as the largest and probably finest antebellum brick house in Mecklenburg County.","period_of_significance":"19th Century","architect_builder":"James G. Torrence (builder/owner)","architectural_style":"Federal and Greek Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in good condition, occupied as a private residence; repaired and refurbished in 1949 after a period of disrepair.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:55.80028-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/60/7212/47721260/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/72000976.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72000976/0cc7922acb-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72000976/0cc7922acb-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Crazyale","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cedar_Grove,_Huntersville,_NC.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Crazyale</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cedar_Grove,_Huntersville,_NC.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721260","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedar_Grove_(Huntersville,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19460901"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/mecklenburg-county/cedar-grove-72000976/"}