{"nrhp_refnum":"78001947","name":"Jones, Dr. Beverly, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"SR 1611","address_restricted":false,"city":"Bethania","county":"Forsyth County","state":"NC","lat":36.19360525700006,"lon":-80.33644232199998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-01-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick Classical Revival plantation house built 1846-1847 on a bluff above Muddy Creek, near Bethania in Forsyth County, North Carolina, with a kitchen, smokehouse and three log slave houses.","why_significant":"It is one of two known documented surviving examples in the state of the work of Virginia-born architect-builder Dabney Cosby. His 1846-1847 letters to Dr. Beverly Jones about building the house have been preserved. The house also has a nearly unaltered interior and a nearly complete set of contemporary outbuildings, and it is tied to the Jones family, a long line of Forsyth County professionals.","narrative":"Crowning a bluff above Muddy Creek on the edge of the Moravian village of Bethania, this two-story brick house was built in 1846-1847 for Dr. Beverly Jones, a local physician. It is a Classical Revival plantation house, three bays wide, with a center-hall plan, original plasterwork, mantels and hardware, and a nearly complete group of outbuildings including a kitchen, smokehouse and three log slave houses. Dabney Cosby, a Virginia-born architect-builder who had worked under Thomas Jefferson at the University of Virginia, designed and built it. It is one of only two known documented surviving examples of his work in North Carolina, where most of his buildings have been destroyed. His letters to Jones about the project survive. The house was built on land owned by Jones's father-in-law, Abraham Conrad. Jones's descendants became physicians, a dentist, a lawyer and judge, and an editor. The house left the family in 1956.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Dabney Cosby","architectural_style":"Classical Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in excellent condition, with an interior nearly unaltered; the form lists the property as private and occupied by its owners.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:58.438531-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/69/7201/47720169/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/78001947.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"91000346","name":"Bethania Historic District (Boundary Increase)","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/bethania-historic-district-boundary-increase-91000346/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720169","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Beverly_Jones_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18559380"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/forsyth-county/jones-dr-beverly-house-78001947/"}