{"nrhp_refnum":"74001379","name":"Mangum, James, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"SW of Durham off NC 751","address_restricted":false,"city":"Creedmore","county":"Wake County","state":"NC","lat":35.82845244900005,"lon":-78.98967093999994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-11-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large two-story, L-shaped farmhouse on a hillside above Little Beaver Dam Creek, southwest of Durham near Creedmore in Wake County, North Carolina. It was the home of General James M. Mangum; the exact construction date is uncertain.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it an interesting vernacular farmhouse and the most impressive surviving dwelling in a hilly, sparsely settled part of Wake County. Its Federal-form plan holds consistent, well-preserved interiors that mix Greek Revival and earlier motifs in an ambitious yet naive way. It was also the home of a locally prominent planter, militia general and state legislator.","narrative":"Set on the slope of a steep hill above Little Beaver Dam Creek near Creedmore, this two-story, L-shaped farmhouse in Wake County has a five-bay facade, brick end chimneys and an off-center hall plan one room deep. Its proportions suggest the Federal era, while the interior mixes earlier details with Greek Revival ones, including flat-paneled wainscoting, six-panel doors and imaginatively designed mantels with Greek key motifs. The house was the home of James Manuel Mangum, born in 1796, a planter who served in the North Carolina House of Commons and became a brigadier general in the state militia in 1842. After his death in 1854 and his widow's in 1874, the 555-acre homeplace was sold at auction. The house was valued as the most impressive surviving dwelling in a hilly, sparsely settled area that was to be flooded by the Falls of the Neuse reservoir project, and it is now owned by the Army Corps of Engineers.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal in form with vernacular Greek Revival and earlier interior finish","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as in good condition and altered; unoccupied and owned by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, within the area to be inundated by the Falls of the Neuse reservoir project.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:57.243191-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/94/7225/47722594/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/74001379.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722594","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Mangum_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14707987"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wake-county/mangum-james-house-74001379/"}