{"nrhp_refnum":"73001313","name":"Shuford House","other_names":["Maple Grove"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"542 2nd St. NE.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hickory","county":"Catawba County","state":"NC","lat":35.74068439800004,"lon":-81.33314827799995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-04-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Shuford House, also called Maple Grove or the Adolphus Shuford House, is a two-story frame house at 542 Second Street, N.E., in Hickory, Catawba County, North Carolina, built about 1875 for Adolphus Lafayette Shuford.","why_significant":"The house is one of the earliest surviving houses associated with the Shuford family, prominent in Catawba County's textile and furniture industries. Its full-length double porch with sawn scroll balustrade and bracketed cornice gives a distinctive look to a fairly standard building type. It is also tied to A. L. Shuford, a founding commissioner of Hickory and an early Jersey cattle breeder.","narrative":"Maple Grove, the Adolphus Shuford House, is a two-story, three-bay frame house in Hickory, built about 1875. Its most striking feature is a two-story porch running nearly the full width of the front, with paired pillars, a patterned scroll-sawn balustrade and small paired brackets under the cornice. Three bracketed gable dormers, exterior end chimneys of common-bond brick and a central hall plan complete the design. A rear wing, said to be older, incorporates a small building that stood on the land before the house. Adolphus Lafayette Shuford was one of six founding commissioners of Hickory in 1863, an early railroad agent and a pioneer importer of thoroughbred Jersey cattle. He built the house as a homestead for his large family on a dairy farm that the growing town later surrounded. His family lived there until 1912. The house was later donated to the Hickory Landmarks Society as a memorial to Wade H. Shuford.","period_of_significance":"19th Century (specific date 1875)","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in good condition and altered; occupied, with the rear wing used as an apartment. Owned by the Hickory Landmarks Society, which is administering its preservation.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:57.863898-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/97/7194/47719497/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/73001313.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001313/d3ebe90bc1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001313/d3ebe90bc1-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Tylerg","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shuford_House_Front,_Hickory_North_Carolina.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Tylerg</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:Shuford_House_Front,_Hickory_North_Carolina.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719497","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuford_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18158039"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/catawba-county/shuford-house-73001313/"}