{"nrhp_refnum":"75001275","name":"Johnson-Neel House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"4 mi. W of Mooresville off NC 150","address_restricted":false,"city":"Mooresville","county":"Iredell County","state":"NC","lat":35.596342992000075,"lon":-80.88631424399995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1975-06-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, three-bay brick plantation house with a hip roof, built about 1830 about four miles west of Mooresville off NC 150 in Iredell County, North Carolina. It was built for farmer William Cook Johnson and is attributed to master builder Jacob Stirewalt.","why_significant":"The house is argued to embody distinctive characteristics of the work of Piedmont master builder Jacob Stirewalt. Its curving Federal-style stair with tulip brackets and a mantel closely resembling one at Stirewalt's home, Mill Hill, tie it to buildings attributed to him. Little of Stirewalt's work can be documented, so the interior finish is the main link.","narrative":"Built around 1830 for local farmer William Cook Johnson, this two-story brick house stands about four miles west of Mooresville in Iredell County. It has three bays, a hip roof, two narrow interior end chimneys, and Flemish bond brickwork. Inside, a central hall holds a cantilevered Federal-style stair with tulip brackets, and the north chamber has a plaster ceiling medallion and a reeded mantel. These details match other buildings attributed to Jacob Stirewalt, a prolific Piedmont master builder, including Mill Hill, his own home. Although little of Stirewalt's work can be documented, the interior finish ties this house to his. Johnson owned four slaves by 1830 and farmed 320 acres by 1850. After his death in 1855, the land passed among his children, and Cyrus Johnson ran a cattle and dairy farm there. The Neel family bought the house in 1906. A road change led later owners to treat the original rear as the front and to brick in the porch. A dovetail-notched log outbuilding remains in the yard.","period_of_significance":"Ca. 1830","architect_builder":"Jacob Stirewalt (attributed master builder)","architectural_style":"Vernacular with Federal elements","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as unoccupied and used as a part-time residence at the time of nomination; the front porch was bricked in and the road change led later owners to treat the original rear as the front.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:57.769876-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/59/7180/47718059/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/75001275.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001275/1c2f8c474e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001275/1c2f8c474e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Cdtew at English Wikipedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Johnson-Neel_House.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:Johnson-Neel_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718059","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson-Neel_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14707999"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/iredell-county/johnson-neel-house-75001275/"}