{"nrhp_refnum":"74001354","name":"Mount Mourne","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Off NC 115","address_restricted":false,"city":"Mount Mourne","county":"Iredell County","state":"NC","lat":35.53886558800008,"lon":-80.84921930299998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-10-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, five-bay frame plantation house at the junction of S.R. 1170, S.R. 1189 and N.C. 115 in Mount Mourne, Iredell County, North Carolina, built about 1830 for planter Rufus Reid.","why_significant":"The house is a handsome example of transitional Federal-Greek Revival style, noted for its Greek Revival porch, which was cited in Waterman's The Early Architecture of North Carolina. Its interior woodwork, including a cantilevered stair with tulip brackets, is attributed to the Piedmont master builder Jacob Stirewalt. It is also tied to Rufus Reid, a wealthy and locally prominent planter and legislator.","narrative":"Mount Mourne is a two-story, five-bay frame plantation house in southern Iredell County, North Carolina, built around 1830 for Rufus Reid. Pairs of Flemish bond chimneys rise at the gable ends, and a Greek Revival porch with four fluted Tuscan columns shelters the central entrance. That porch was cited by T. T. Waterman in a study of early North Carolina architecture. Inside, a center-hall plan holds transitional Federal-Greek Revival finishes, including a cantilevered stair with tulip brackets drawn from a pattern book. These details are attributed to the Piedmont builder Jacob Stirewalt. Reid, the son of a Revolutionary soldier who ran the Catawba Springs resort, assembled large landholdings, served in the state House of Commons in 1844 and 1846, and owned 3,625 acres and fifty-two slaves at his death in 1854. The nearby community took its name from his home. A log outbuilding stands to the rear, and the house remains a private residence.","period_of_significance":"19th Century (ca. 1830)","architect_builder":"Attributed to Jacob Stirewalt (builder)","architectural_style":"Transitional Federal-Greek Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as good and altered; in use as a private residence, occupied.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:58.323378-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/82/7180/47718082/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/74001354.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001354/86e22ab135-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001354/86e22ab135-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Cdtew at English Wikipedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mount_Mourne_Plantation.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Cdtew at English Wikipedia</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:Mount_Mourne_Plantation.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718082","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Mourne_Plantation","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14708054"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/iredell-county/mount-mourne-74001354/"}