{"nrhp_refnum":"78001963","name":"Duke, James Buchanan, House","other_names":["Lynnewood","White Oaks"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"400 Hermitage Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Charlotte","county":"Mecklenburg County","state":"NC","lat":35.20142267800003,"lon":-80.82732233599995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-01-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Colonial Revival mansion at 400 Hermitage Road in Myers Park, Charlotte, North Carolina, on a 4.148-acre landscaped lot. It grew from a 1914 house built for Zebulon Vance Taylor, which James B. Duke bought in 1919 and had architect Charles C. Hook enlarge.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the house as a particularly good example of Colonial Revival architecture in North Carolina. It was also the residence of tobacco and power industrialist James B. Duke during the last years of his life, when he created the Duke Endowment. Later owners came from two prominent North Carolina textile families.","narrative":"Set on 4.148 landscaped acres in Charlotte's Myers Park, this Colonial Revival mansion developed in two stages. Zebulon Vance Taylor had a substantial house built in 1914. In 1919 tobacco and electric power magnate James Buchanan Duke bought it and hired local architect Charles C. Hook, who nearly tripled its size by adding a matching block and a connecting hyphen. The result is an H-shaped, weatherboarded house with slate roof and two-story Tuscan porticos. Duke named it Lynnewood, and it held 45 rooms and 12 baths. He lived there in his last years, during which he established the Duke Endowment, which supports Duke University, other colleges, hospitals and Methodist programs. Later owners included the Cannon family and Henry and Clayton Lineberger, both prominent in the textile industry. The Linebergers restored the house after fire, added landscaping and furnishings, and left it to the Duke Endowment. The property was listed for its architecture and its association with Duke.","period_of_significance":"1914, 1919","architect_builder":"Charles C. Hook","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed in excellent condition and occupied as a private residence at the time of nomination; owned by the Duke Endowment. The attic was rebuilt after a fire in 1966, and the house was restored after a fire.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:56.3196-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/14/7213/47721314/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/78001963.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78001963/d2a280295f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78001963/d2a280295f-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Jack Boucher","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_Buchanan_Duke_House,_400_Hermitage,_Charlotte_(Mecklenburg,_North_Carolina).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jack Boucher</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_Buchanan_Duke_House,_400_Hermitage,_Charlotte_(Mecklenburg,_North_Carolina).jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"87000655","name":"Myers Park Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/myers-park-historic-district-87000655/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721314","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Buchanan_Duke_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19461425"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/mecklenburg-county/duke-james-buchanan-house-78001963/"}