{"nrhp_refnum":"82003465","name":"Howard, Kenneth L., House","other_names":["Women's Club of Dunn,Inc."],"category":"building","location":{"address":"400 S. Layton Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Dunn","county":"Harnett County","state":"NC","lat":35.30754712100003,"lon":-78.61588241599998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-08-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story Colonial Revival residence in Dunn, Harnett County, North Carolina, built in 1908-1909 as a free copy of the North Carolina Building from the 1907 Jamestown Ter-Centennial Exposition. It is set on a fenced, tree-shaded lot.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house has statewide architectural and historical significance for its own qualities and for its association with North Carolina's participation in the Jamestown Exposition. Its design follows the state building that the exposition displayed, and it is described as an unusually handsome example of large Colonial Revival houses of the pre-World War I period. It also reflects the career of Kenneth Lewis Howard, a pioneer lumberman and farmer in Dunn.","narrative":"Built in 1908-1909 in Dunn, Harnett County, the Kenneth L. Howard House is a two-story Colonial Revival mansion with a full-height free Ionic portico, a hipped roof with a mock widow's walk, and a symmetrical center-hall double-pile plan. It was modeled closely on the North Carolina Building designed by Zimmerman and Lester of Winston-Salem for the Jamestown Ter-Centennial Exposition of 1907, which the state had funded and which was completed in June 1907. Howard, a lumberman and farmer, and his wife Florence owned the house until their deaths. Their daughter Lucille Hooper lived there afterward, and the Woman's Club bought it in 1953. The interior retains oak woodwork, Tuscan-column mantels, and a free-standing stair. The house is significant as a surviving copy of a state exhibition building, since the original was later moved and remodeled beyond recognition.","period_of_significance":"1908-1909","architect_builder":"Zimmerman and Lester (architects of the model North Carolina Building; house builder not separately named)","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"The Woman's Club has used the house as its headquarters since 1953.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.471483-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/28/7207/47720728/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/82003465.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003465/121b87f56e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003465/121b87f56e-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kenneth_L._Howard_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kenneth_L._Howard_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720728","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_L._Howard_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19462424"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/harnett-county/howard-kenneth-l-house-82003465/"}