{"nrhp_refnum":"79001722","name":"Shelton House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"307 Shelton St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Waynesville","county":"Haywood County","state":"NC","lat":35.484978643000034,"lon":-82.98564768211202,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-01-31","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame farmhouse at 307 Shelton Street in Waynesville, Haywood County, North Carolina, built between about 1876 and 1880 for Stephen J. Shelton, with outbuildings on an eight-and-one-half acre tract.","why_significant":"The house is presented as an important, well-preserved and unusually well-crafted example of a western North Carolina dwelling type: the two-story, one-room-deep farmhouse with a full-width, two-tier engaged porch. Its undisturbed pastoral setting recalls Waynesville's rural origins. It is also tied to Stephen J. Shelton, a Confederate officer, sheriff and community figure, and his son William T. Shelton.","narrative":"Set on a knoll about a quarter mile from downtown Waynesville, this two-story frame farmhouse was built between about 1876 and 1880 for Stephen J. Shelton, a Confederate lieutenant, six-year sheriff of Haywood County, farmer and Methodist Sunday School superintendent. Its most striking feature is a full-width, two-tier engaged porch with chamfered posts, along with bracketed eaves, paneled ceilings and original mantels inside. The rear wing was raised to two stories around 1900. Shelton's son William T., who spent twenty-six years working at Indian schools in North Carolina, New Mexico and Arizona, lived here after 1918 and added a garage apartment and a dahlia greenhouse. A large early twentieth century barn, a creamery and sheds remain on the grounds. The house was listed as a well-preserved example of a western North Carolina farmhouse type, and its tree-shaded farmstead setting preserves a view of the town's rural beginnings. It is now being developed as a handicrafts museum.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Altered slightly; owned by the Museum of North Carolina Handicrafts, Inc., which is developing the property as a museum. The greenhouse is in ruins.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:57.506344-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/68/7207/47720768/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/79001722.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001722/73effa975d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001722/73effa975d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"AbeEzekowitz","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shelton_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">AbeEzekowitz</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:Shelton_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720768","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelton_House_(Waynesville,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25203127"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/haywood-county/shelton-house-79001722/"}