{"nrhp_refnum":"80002811","name":"Irvin-Hamrick Log House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NW of Boiling Springs on SR 1153","address_restricted":false,"city":"Boiling Springs","county":"Cleveland County","state":"NC","lat":35.27651165900005,"lon":-81.62573422499997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-05-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small two-section log dwelling with a frame rear addition, on the north side of SR 1153 northwest of Boiling Springs in southwest Cleveland County, North Carolina. The log portion dates from about 1795 and the rear addition from about 1865.","why_significant":"The house is presented as a representative example of the half-dovetail log dwelling that was the main house type for small farmers in the Piedmont and western North Carolina in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Few such houses survive with integrity, and this one has been maintained by descendants of its 19th-century occupants. It is also tied to James Irvin, a Revolutionary War veteran, and to the Hamrick family, who owned it from 1850.","narrative":"This small log house sits on an isolated rural road in the farm country of southwest Cleveland County. Its front section is built of hewn logs joined with half-dovetail notches, under a gable roof with a raised attic, and rests on fieldstone piers. A fieldstone chimney stands at the west end. A frame rear addition, completed after the Civil War, adds one large room. The log portion probably dates from about 1795 and was likely built by James Irvin, a Revolutionary War veteran who bought the 200-acre tract in 1794. He and his wife raised ten children there. Cameron Street Hamrick bought the homeplace in 1850 and raised six sons in it. The property has never left Hamrick family ownership, and a family memorial association acquired it in 1951 to restore the house and tend the nearby cemetery. It is considered significant as a surviving example of the log dwelling that housed most small farmers of the region.","period_of_significance":"1700-1799, 1800-1899 (specific dates circa 1795, 1865)","architect_builder":"James Irvin","architectural_style":"Vernacular half-dovetail notched log construction with a later frame rear addition","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Condition is marked excellent and the site is listed as unoccupied. The house was restored by a family memorial association after 1951, and a chain-link fence surrounds the one-acre lot to deter vandalism.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:57.638529-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/64/7196/47719664/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/80002811.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80002811/7e25200715-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80002811/7e25200715-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Upstateherd","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Irvin-Hamrick_Log_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Upstateherd</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:Irvin-Hamrick_Log_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719664","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irvin-Hamrick_Log_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18152534"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/cleveland-county/irvin-hamrick-log-house-80002811/"}