{"nrhp_refnum":"74001375","name":"Moore, Matthew, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"W of Danbury","address_restricted":false,"city":"Danbury","county":"Stokes County","state":"NC","lat":36.43513700300008,"lon":-80.29199929699996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-10-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small one-and-one-half story brick cottage on a raised fieldstone basement, on a knoll overlooking the Dan River Valley west of Danbury in Stokes County, North Carolina. A dated brick shows it was built in 1786 for Matthew Moore.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it a rare example of eighteenth-century Pennsylvania-influenced domestic architecture, one of few known instances outside Salem of building traits brought by Moravian and Quaker settlers. It features a Quaker plan, segmental-arched openings and fine Flemish bond brickwork. It was also the home of Matthew Moore, an early prominent settler and large landowner, and is believed to be the oldest intact structure in Stokes County.","narrative":"Set on a remote knoll above the Dan River Valley west of Danbury, this small brick cottage was built in 1786, a date cut into one of its bricks. It rises one and a half stories over a fieldstone basement, with Flemish bond walls, segmental-arched openings and a shed porch with chamfered posts. Inside, it follows a simple Quaker plan of one large room and two smaller ones. The house is regarded as a rare example of Pennsylvania-influenced building traditions brought to the North Carolina midlands by Moravian and Quaker settlers, and as probably the oldest intact structure in Stokes County. It was the home of Matthew Moore, an early settler, justice of the peace and safety committee member who held thousands of acres and about fifteen slaves by 1790 and operated an iron works. After his death in 1801 the property passed through his son, Moravian proprietors and later the Reynolds and George families.","period_of_significance":"1786","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Pennsylvania-influenced (Moravian and Quaker) domestic architecture with a Quaker plan","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as fair and altered; the dormers have been removed, the front cornice boxing has partly disappeared, and first-floor walls are covered with sheetrock. Used as a private residence.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:56.328053-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/78/7222/47722278/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/74001375.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001375/e405a1b1af-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001375/e405a1b1af-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Kathryn Meyer","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Matthew_Moore_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Kathryn Meyer</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:Matthew_Moore_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722278","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Moore_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19946023"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/stokes-county/moore-matthew-house-74001375/"}