{"nrhp_refnum":"79003329","name":"Boyette Slave House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NW of Kenly on SR 2110","address_restricted":false,"city":"Kenly","county":"Johnston County","state":"NC","lat":35.63060585100004,"lon":-78.17559427499998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-09-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small one-room log slave house on the east side of SR 2110 northwest of Kenly in Johnston County, North Carolina, built probably in the first half or mid-nineteenth century on the Boyett(e) family farm.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it holds the most intact stick and mud chimney known in North Carolina, built entirely of sticks daubed with mud and held to the house by board jambs. It is a rare survivor of a medieval-derived building method that nearly disappeared after slavery ended. It also reflects the economy of small antebellum farms worked by landowners and a few slaves.","narrative":"Standing alone in a cultivated field northwest of Kenly, this small log building was once a slave dwelling on the Boyett farm in Johnston County. Measuring 16 by 12 feet, it is made of hewn and pit-sawn planks joined by full-dovetail corner notches and wooden dowels, with a tin gable roof that extends over the western end. Its defining feature is a chimney built entirely of heart pine sticks daubed with mud, set on a base of field stones and wedged against the wall by board jambs. The form describes it as the most intact chimney of this type known in North Carolina. Stick and mud chimneys came from medieval English building methods and were mostly replaced by brick or stone, surviving mainly at slave quarters that were later abandoned. The building probably dates from the first half of the nineteenth century. George Boyett and his son Larkin owned eight slaves in 1850. The structure is also tied to small-farm agriculture in antebellum North Carolina.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Unaltered and not restored; the form marks it deteriorated and vacant, with a new tin roof and a board brace added to the chimney stack.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:57.731831-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/74/7209/47720974/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/79003329.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003329/caf7902628-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003329/caf7902628-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"DanTD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boyette_Slave_House-1.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">DanTD</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:Boyette_Slave_House-1.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720974","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyette_Slave_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19460632"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/johnston-county/boyette-slave-house-79003329/"}