{"nrhp_refnum":"82003490","name":"Bryant, James, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"On SR 1210","address_restricted":false,"city":"Harris Crossroads","county":"Moore County","state":"NC","lat":35.31885689100005,"lon":-79.54455589499997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-04-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A circa 1820 two-story, three-bay frame farmhouse built by James Bryant at Harris Crossroads near Robbins, Moore County, North Carolina, with a small hewn-log kitchen dwelling about forty feet away on the same 3.4-acre site.","why_significant":"The Bryant House is argued to be an excellent example of the modest, carefully built vernacular hall-and-parlor farmhouses of Moore County, with Flemish bond chimneys and transitional Georgian-Federal woodwork. The log kitchen, traditionally linked to Joel McLendon, is notable for its unusual log gables with pole purlins instead of rafters. The site may also yield archaeological information.","narrative":"Set on a wooded hillside above a creek at Harris Crossroads, this property pairs a circa 1820 frame farmhouse with an earlier log kitchen. James Bryant built the two-story, three-bay house on a hall-and-parlor plan, with Flemish bond end chimneys, six-over-six windows with louvered blinds, and unpainted interior woodwork blending Georgian and Federal styles. Nearby stands a one-room hewn-log structure traditionally tied to Joel McLendon, who operated an early gristmill on the creek around 1760. Its log gables rise to the ridgepole with pole purlins, a rare technique. The Bryant family farmed the land through several generations until 1969, when descendants deeded the house and 3.4 acres to the Moore County Historical Association. After restoration, both buildings opened to the public. They were recognized as representative examples of Moore County's late eighteenth and early nineteenth century building forms, and for their potential to yield archaeological information.","period_of_significance":"1700-1799, 1800-1899","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Vernacular hall-and-parlor farmhouse with transitional Georgian to Federal woodwork","criteria":["C","D"],"status_note":"Restored and opened to the public as a historic site in 1976; owned by the Moore County Historical Association and listed as occupied, in museum use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:57.954347-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/38/7214/47721438/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/82003490.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003490/793aa1a639-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003490/793aa1a639-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Cohee","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_Bryant_House_Moore_Co_NC.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Cohee</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:James_Bryant_House_Moore_Co_NC.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721438","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bryant_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19460715"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/moore-county/bryant-james-house-82003490/"}