{"nrhp_refnum":"83001861","name":"McArthur-Council House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"SR 2244","address_restricted":false,"city":"Grays Creek","county":"Cumberland County","state":"NC","lat":34.89402146800006,"lon":-78.93252040799996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-07-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"The McArthur-Council House is a farmhouse in the Gray's Creek area of southwestern Cumberland County, North Carolina, with an original two-room section built in the mid-1830s and a two-story Late Victorian remodeling completed around 1918-1920. It sits among farm outbuildings including a log smokehouse, a pack house, and a tobacco barn.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house documents a family's adaptation of its lifestyle across nearly a century of changing rural conditions. It is presented as a rare Cumberland County example of a two-room plan with a large central chimney, and its early interior was kept intact within the later enlargement. It is also associated with the settlement traditions of Highland Scots along the Cape Fear River.","narrative":"Set in the Gray's Creek area of southwestern Cumberland County, this farmhouse began as a two-room frame dwelling with a large central chimney and back-to-back fireplaces, built in the mid-1830s to replace an earlier log structure. Duncan McArthur is believed to have built it, and his son Neill expanded it after the Civil War. Around 1918 the house was enlarged into a two-story Late Victorian dwelling with a double-tiered pedimented porch, wrought iron supports, and a rear kitchen ell, with the older section left inside the new walls. The interior of the original section retains wide pine floorboards, wide horizontal wall boards, an early Greek Revival style mantel, and an unusual vertical plank Dutch door. Outbuildings include a log smokehouse with its original wooden lock, a pack house, and a tobacco barn. The house is valued for showing how a typical rural farmhouse evolved, and for preserving an early stage of its construction that is rarely found in the county.","period_of_significance":"1830-1918","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Altered; the house is occupied and continues to be used as part of a farm, with the house tract parceled separately.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.258616-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/90/7197/47719790/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/83001861.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719790","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McArthur-Council_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18217055"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/cumberland-county/mcarthur-council-house-83001861/"}