{"nrhp_refnum":"80002846","name":"Way, Dr. J. Howell, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"301 S. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Waynesville","county":"Haywood County","state":"NC","lat":35.48781237000003,"lon":-82.98894482699995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-09-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Health/Medicine","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large two-and-one-half-story brick residence at 301 South Main Street in Waynesville, Haywood County, North Carolina, built about 1899 for physician Dr. J. Howell Way. It sits on a 1.48-acre lot with a medical office and a carriage house.","why_significant":"The house is presented as one of the most prominent late nineteenth-century residences remaining in Waynesville, combining Queen Anne and Colonial Revival elements. It is also tied to Dr. Way, a leading North Carolina physician who served as president of the State Board of Health, and to his son, who was mayor of Waynesville for twenty-eight years. It is also linked to the economic and social growth of western North Carolina.","narrative":"Built about 1899 on Waynesville's South Main Street, this large brick house was the home of Dr. J. Howell Way, a physician who rose to lead North Carolina's State Board of Health from 1911 until his death in 1927. The two-and-one-half-story house has a complex roof with projecting gables and dormers, turned-post porches, sawn brackets, and a second-floor balcony. Inside, four first-floor mantels carry classical carvings, and one rests on carved griffins. A small brick medical office and a two-story carriage house remain on the 1.48-acre lot. A local newspaper of 1900 called it the largest residence in Waynesville. Dr. Way's son, J. Howell Way Jr., a banker, lived there all his life and served as mayor from 1935 to 1963. The property is valued for its blend of Queen Anne and Colonial Revival design, its link to the town's late nineteenth-century growth, and its association with two prominent local figures.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1890","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Queen Anne and Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Listed as unoccupied and slightly altered, in private ownership; the owners hoped to sell to a preservation-minded buyer.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:56.979324-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/74/7207/47720774/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/80002846.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80002846/ed2182b8d2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80002846/ed2182b8d2-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"AbeEzekowitz","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dr._J._Howell_Way_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:Dr._J._Howell_Way_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720774","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._J._Howell_Way_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24436235"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/haywood-county/way-dr-j-howell-house-80002846/"}