{"nrhp_refnum":"72000992","name":"Chambers, Maxwell, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"116 S. Jackson St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Salisbury","county":"Rowan County","state":"NC","lat":35.66908867700005,"lon":-80.47232223799995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1972-01-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame Federal town house at 116 South Jackson Street in Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina, built around 1814-1819 and moved to its present site in 1913.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it an outstanding example of a Federal town house in piedmont North Carolina. It shows features attributed to the local master builder Jacob Stirewalt, especially its well-executed mantels and graceful curving stair. The form describes the attribution as based on the finer interior finish and repeated motifs.","narrative":"Maxwell Chambers House is a two-story weatherboarded Federal town house at 116 South Jackson Street in Salisbury. Land records suggest cabinet maker Lewis Utzman built it between 1814 and 1819, when he sold the lot to Judge James Martin. Later owners included the Reverend Thomas F. Davis, Jr., and merchant Maxwell Chambers, who bought it in 1847 and offered it to the First Presbyterian Church as a manse. It served that purpose until 1913, when it was moved from Innes and Jackson streets to its present location. It later housed a school and a Sunday school, and since 1954 it has been leased to the Rowan Museum, which furnished it and opened it to the public. The house is valued for its interior, which is attributed to builder Jacob Stirewalt: a curving stair with tulip brackets, a carved Federal mantel in the parlor, plaster cornices, and a medallion in the stairwell. The nomination calls it an outstanding Federal town house in piedmont North Carolina.","period_of_significance":"19th Century","architect_builder":"Jacob Stirewalt (attributed); Lewis Utzman, cabinet maker, probably built the house","architectural_style":"Federal town house","criteria":[],"status_note":"Leased from 1954 to the Rowan Museum, Inc., which furnished the house and opened it to the public; the form lists it as occupied and in use as a museum.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:58.052818-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/54/7220/47722054/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/72000992.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72000992/173138a110-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72000992/173138a110-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Kharris0317","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WSQ_Maxwell_Chambers_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Kharris0317</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WSQ_Maxwell_Chambers_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722054","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell_Chambers_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19986990"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/rowan-county/chambers-maxwell-house-72000992/"}