{"nrhp_refnum":"82003437","name":"Lanning, John A., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"W of Fairview on SR 3128","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fairview","county":"Buncombe County","state":"NC","lat":35.52105664800007,"lon":-82.43210296599995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-09-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"The John A. Lanning House is a one-and-one-half story saddlebag log house with outbuildings on a state secondary road in the Fairview section of Buncombe County, North Carolina. It was built in 1839 on Gap Creek.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is the best preserved exposed example of early nineteenth century log construction in Buncombe County. Its full-dovetail notching, long continuous upper logs, yellow pine construction and original hand-forged hardware set it apart from standard log work. Several early outbuildings, including a double-pen log barn and a double corn crib, survive with it and represent a typical yeoman farm of the period.","narrative":"Built in 1839 on Gap Creek in the Fairview section of Buncombe County, North Carolina, this saddlebag house is built of hewn yellow pine logs joined with full-dovetail notches, a rare cornering method in the county where half-dovetail was the norm. The upper-story logs run continuously across the house for about forty-four feet, and the gables project on extended plates. John A. Lanning, a farmer who was also a blacksmith and cobbler, made the hardware himself, and some of it survives in place. The house and its early outbuildings, including a double-pen log barn and a log double corn crib, are regarded as a well-preserved example of a yeoman farm of the early nineteenth century. Alterations since then include replaced windows, enclosed porches and sheetrock interior walls, but the core log structure remains largely intact.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Saddlebag","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Altered; occupied by the present owner. Original mud daubing replaced with cement in the 1930s and roof replaced with tin during 1930 renovations.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.113986-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/63/7191/47719163/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/82003437.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719163","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_A._Lanning_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18153413"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/buncombe-county/lanning-john-a-house-82003437/"}