{"nrhp_refnum":"82001283","name":"Clegg, Luther, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"S of Pittsboro on SR 1012","address_restricted":false,"city":"Pittsboro","county":"Chatham County","state":"NC","lat":35.69862254800006,"lon":-79.16346098699995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-10-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A five-bay two-story Greek Revival frame house with a single-pile central-hall plan, facing southwest toward Moncure Road near Pittsboro in Chatham County, North Carolina. It was built ca. 1850 by Luther Clegg, a farmer, and is known as Edgewood.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it the last comprehensive Greek Revival design built in Pittsboro and the area's purest residential example of the style. It is also associated with the town's growth in the 1850s through internal improvements such as the Cape Fear and Deep River Navigation Company and the plank road movement. Its separate second-floor traveller's room with its own enclosed staircase and surviving original interior paint colors are cited as notable features.","narrative":"A two-story frame farmhouse of five bays with a central hall, built around 1850 near Pittsboro in Chatham County, North Carolina, by the farmer Luther Clegg (1808-1894). It has a low hipped roof, end chimneys, a flat-block modillion cornice and six-over-six sash windows, and its entrance is framed by sidelights and a transom. Clegg was an active Methodist, and a first-floor room was set aside for the minister on the Moncure circuit. A second-floor chamber with its own enclosed staircase, known as the traveller's room, was built to lodge guests and court visitors. The house is listed for its Greek Revival design, which the nomination regards as the purest residential example of the style in Pittsboro, and for its surviving original interior paint colors. It is also tied to the town's growth in the 1850s. The Clegg family owned it into the late twentieth century.","period_of_significance":"c. 1850","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Altered; the one-story rear addition has modern fenestration and the front porch is not original.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.788897-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/85/7174/47717485/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/82001283.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001283/7124061517-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001283/7124061517-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Luther_Clegg_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Luther_Clegg_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717485","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther_Clegg_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18149002"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/chatham-county/clegg-luther-house-82001283/"}