{"nrhp_refnum":"82003449","name":"Greystone","other_names":["James E. Stagg House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"618 Morhead Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Durham","county":"Durham County","state":"NC","lat":35.99230013700003,"lon":-78.90865321999996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-06-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-a-half story Chateauesque Revival mansion on a 3.05 acre corner lot at Vickers and Morehead in a residential neighborhood of Durham, North Carolina. It was completed in 1911 as the residence of James E. Stagg.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is significant for its association with the early twentieth century prosperity of Durham linked to the Duke family and the American Tobacco Company, and for its association with James E. Stagg and his wife Mary Washington Lyon. It is also significant as a distinctive example of Chateauesque Revival architecture by Hook and Rodgers of Charlotte, with a high quality Georgian Revival interior by the Boston firm Irving and Casson. The nomination notes that few such mansions survive in Durham and that the style is rare in North Carolina.","narrative":"Built in 1911 for James Edward Stagg, a Durham businessman, this two-and-a-half story house on a 3.05 acre corner lot faces Morehead Street. It was designed by Charles C. Hook of the Charlotte firm Hook and Rodgers and is built of tan pressed brick with limestone trim and a heavy clay tile roof. Its Chateauesque exterior, with a porte-cochere porch of ten limestone columns, conical-roofed projections and tall chimneys, is rare in North Carolina. Inside, the Georgian Revival woodwork in mahogany, oak and Italian walnut was made by the Boston firm Irving and Casson. Stagg had worked for the Durham and Southern Railway and served on local mill and bank boards, and his wife was active in civic and church affairs. The house is one of few surviving Durham mansions from the tobacco-fortune era. It was divided into apartments around 1961.","period_of_significance":"1911","architect_builder":"Hook & Rodgers, Architects (Charles C. Hook); contractor N. Underwood","architectural_style":"Chateauesque Revival","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Altered around 1961 into multiple apartments; the exterior changes are described as negligible from the outside.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.583708-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/32/7200/47720032/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/82003449.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003449/218a8f356b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003449/218a8f356b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Ildar Sagdejev (Specious)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2008-07-12_Greystone_Manor_from_the_lawn.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Ildar Sagdejev (Specious)</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2008-07-12_Greystone_Manor_from_the_lawn.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720032","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greystone_(Durham,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19462081"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/durham-county/greystone-82003449/"}