{"nrhp_refnum":"72000977","name":"Holly Bend","other_names":["Hollywood"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"W of Huntersville on SR 2720","address_restricted":false,"city":"Huntersville","county":"Mecklenburg County","state":"NC","lat":35.38429571700004,"lon":-80.96396979299999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1972-03-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Holly Bend (also called Hollywood) is a large two-story frame plantation house on a neck of land jutting into the Catawba River near Huntersville, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. Robert Davidson built it between 1795 and 1800.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is significant for its interior rather than its plain exterior. Its lavish, exuberantly vernacular Federal-style trim, including an Adamesque mantel and overdoor, appears in an otherwise unexceptional house, which the form calls unique. The carpenter's creative handling of derivative forms produced a purely local expression of Federal Neo-Classicism.","narrative":"Holly Bend is a large frame plantation house set in a grove of holly trees on a neck of land reaching into the Catawba River near Huntersville. Robert Davidson built it between 1795 and 1800 on land given to him by his father, John Davidson, and it was finished before his marriage in 1801. Davidson later became reputedly the wealthiest planter in Mecklenburg County. The two-story, five-bay house has plain molded weatherboards, brick end chimneys laid in Flemish bond, and a stone foundation. Its exterior is restrained, apart from a carved central entrance with fluted pilasters and console caps. Inside, the west parlor holds an elaborate mantel, overmantel and overdoor decorated with reeding, rope moldings, rosettes and a bas-relief urn. A Georgian-feeling open-string stair rises in the hall. The house is notable because such lavish Federal woodwork appears in an outwardly ordinary building, interpreted with lively local creativity by the carpenter.","period_of_significance":"18th Century (1795-1800 construction; specific date given as 1810 on the form)","architect_builder":"Robert Davidson (built the house); the interior trim is attributed to an unnamed carpenter","architectural_style":"Federal / vernacular Adamesque Neo-Classicism, with Georgian feeling in the stair","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as good condition, altered, on its original site, in private residential use; preservation work was in progress.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:55.816118-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/76/7212/47721276/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/72000977.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721276","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holly_Bend","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19462370"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/mecklenburg-county/holly-bend-72000977/"}