{"nrhp_refnum":"80002879","name":"Turner, Henry, House and Caldwell-Turner Mill Site","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"SR 2145","address_restricted":false,"city":"Statesville","county":"Iredell County","state":"NC","lat":35.862572639000064,"lon":-80.72665794443188,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-11-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Historic - Non-Aboriginal","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame plantation house built about 1860, with outbuildings, a mill site and an early cemetery, on the banks of Fifth Creek near Cool Spring, Statesville vicinity, Iredell County, North Carolina. It stands on the site of the earlier David Caldwell house.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house, outbuildings and mill site reflect the prosperity of prominent farmers and early industrialists in antebellum Iredell County. It is tied to Henry Turner, a local farmer and mill operator, and to the 18th-century leader David Caldwell. It is also a vernacular Greek Revival example with notable ice and milk pits in the cellar, and may yield information on 18th and 19th century farming and milling.","narrative":"Along Fifth Creek near Cool Spring in Iredell County stands a two-story frame farmhouse built around 1860 for Henry Turner. It replaced the home of David Caldwell, a prominent 18th-century settler and political figure, which burned in 1859. The house has a gable roof, exterior end chimneys, a one-story rear ell and a two-story pedimented porch with Doric posts. Inside, heavy Greek Revival mantels and door surrounds survive, and the cellar holds an ice pit and a milk pit. Nearby are a former mill office, a one-room log building, a shed, a garage, the remains of a wooden water race and an early cemetery thought to be the Caldwell family graveyard. Turner bought the property in 1841 and ran a grist mill that produced flour, meal and feed; his sons converted it to a roller mill in 1891, and it closed in the mid-twentieth century. The property illustrates farming and small-scale milling in the region.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Vernacular Greek Revival","criteria":["A","B","C","D"],"status_note":"The house is described as well preserved and in good repair; the mill building is gone, with only remnants such as the water race remaining. The nomination notes the house is a private residence.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:57.455034-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/78/7180/47718078/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/80002879.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718078","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Turner_House_and_Caldwell%E2%80%93Turner_Mill_Site","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22061110"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/iredell-county/turner-henry-house-and-caldwell-turner-mill-site-80002879/"}