{"nrhp_refnum":"82001293","name":"Cover, Franklin Pierce, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"SR 1388","address_restricted":false,"city":"Andrews","county":"Cherokee County","state":"NC","lat":35.201919479000026,"lon":-83.82706824899998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-11-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Queen Anne style brick residence in the town of Andrews, Cherokee County, North Carolina, built in 1900 for tannery operator Franklin Pierce Cover. It stands on the north side of SR 1388, one block from the present main street.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is one of the largest surviving residences from Andrews' industrial development and an unusual example of a Queen Anne house executed in brick in western North Carolina. It also associates the house with the Cover family's tannery and with Lilian Brittain Cover, a women's political pioneer who lived there.","narrative":"Built in 1900 in Andrews, Cherokee County, this brick Queen Anne house was completed for Franklin Pierce Cover as he opened a tannery in the mountain town. It stands on a broad lawn one block from the main street, facing south toward the Valley River Mountains, and is dominated by a massive three-story octagonal corner tower with a splayed cap and a chevron-patterned corbeled cornice. The interior retains original oak and pine woodwork, plastered walls and several oak mantels. The house is regarded as one of the largest residences remaining from the town's industrial growth, and its brick construction is unusual for the region. Cover's sons Samuel and Giles ran the firm, F. P. Cover & Sons, until 1939. Lilian Brittain Cover, who lived in the house after 1936, was a North Carolina women's political pioneer who served in the state House of Representatives. The house is significant for its architecture and for these associations with industry and politics.","period_of_significance":"1899-1900","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Queen Anne","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"The house is described as altered and in good condition; it is now owned and occupied by a descendant of the Cover family.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.265293-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/83/7195/47719583/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/82001293.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001293/01579078e8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001293/01579078e8-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Warren LeMay from Cincinnati, OH, United States","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Franklin_Pierce_Cover_House,_Andrews,_NC_(32833125968).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Warren LeMay from Cincinnati, OH, United States</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Franklin_Pierce_Cover_House,_Andrews,_NC_(32833125968).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719583","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Pierce_Cover_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17986695"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/cherokee-county/cover-franklin-pierce-house-82001293/"}