{"nrhp_refnum":"80002840","name":"Holly Gate","other_names":["Joyner,J.H.,House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NC 61","address_restricted":false,"city":"Whitsett","county":"Guilford County","state":"NC","lat":36.07183639800007,"lon":-79.56356061199995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-09-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-a-half story frame house in Whitsett, Guilford County, North Carolina, built 1908-1910 as the residence of Professor and Mrs. J. H. Joyner. It is a transitional Queen Anne-Colonial Revival dwelling on a four-acre lot off NC 61.","why_significant":"The house is associated with Whitsett Institute, a private secondary school that helped fill gaps left by weak public instruction in late nineteenth-century North Carolina. Its owner, James Henry Joyner, later founded Gibsonville High School and served long on the Guilford County Board of Education. The nomination also argues that the house is one of the finest surviving Queen Anne-Colonial Revival houses in eastern Guilford County.","narrative":"Holly Gate is a frame, two-and-a-half story house on a four-acre lot near Whitsett in Guilford County, built between 1908 and 1910 for Professor James Henry Joyner and his wife, Effie May Whitsett Joyner. Its irregular plan, projecting gables, gray slate roof, and wraparound Colonial Revival porch with Doric colonettes show the blend of Queen Anne and Colonial Revival detailing. The Joyners were both instructors at Whitsett Institute, a private high school that offered an alternative to weak public schooling in the late 1800s, and the couple built the house partly to accommodate students as boarders. Joyner later became the first principal of Gibsonville High School, which the nomination describes as the first accredited high school in Guilford County, and he served for many years on the county Board of Education. The house is also regarded as one of the finest surviving examples of its style in eastern Guilford County, and its interior retains original mantels and woodwork in several rooms.","period_of_significance":"1908-1910","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Transitional Queen Anne-Colonial Revival","criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"Altered interiors and outbuildings; being restored by its owners","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.148064-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/62/7205/47720562/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/80002840.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"99000532","name":"Whitsett Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/whitsett-historic-district-99000532/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720562","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holly_Gate","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19462371"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/guilford-county/holly-gate-80002840/"}