{"nrhp_refnum":"76001309","name":"Forney, Jacob, Jr., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NW of Morganton on SR 1440","address_restricted":false,"city":"Morganton","county":"Burke County","state":"NC","lat":35.80044753900006,"lon":-81.71918864199995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-10-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story Federal brick plantation house in the foothills of Burke County, North Carolina, near Morganton, with a log smokehouse, grainery, double-pen log building and a family burying ground on the property.","why_significant":"The house is argued to be a representative member of a related group of Catawba Valley plantation houses, sharing twin central entrances, Quaker plans and Flemish bond brickwork. Its documented 1825-1826 construction date is considered especially important to that group because the county records were destroyed in 1865. The Forney family also has local ties to iron making and the Revolutionary era.","narrative":"Built of Flemish bond brick in Burke County, the two-story Jacob Forney, Jr., House was begun on May 4, 1825, and completed by December 1826, according to a journal kept by Forney. Its four-bay east facade has twin entrances with rectangular transoms, flat brick arches and a five-step corbeled cornice. The interior originally followed a Quaker plan, and the cellar includes an ice pit with a chute. A log smokehouse, grainery and double-pen log building stand nearby. Forney, born in 1754, was the son of a Lincoln County pioneer and settled in Burke County around 1780. The house is regarded as a significant example of its related group of plantation houses, and its documented construction date is important because the county's records were burned in 1865. It remained in the Forney family through descendants.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal and later Victorian elements, with Quaker influence and added Eastlake elements","criteria":[],"status_note":"The house is occupied by a family descendant, and the form describes later porch, sunroom and window alterations.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.418271-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/87/7192/47719287/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/76001309.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001309/c0972e3934-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001309/c0972e3934-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"rossograph","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jacob_Forney_Jr._House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">rossograph</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jacob_Forney_Jr._House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719287","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Forney_Jr._House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18150240"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/burke-county/forney-jacob-jr-house-76001309/"}