{"nrhp_refnum":"83001872","name":"Taylor-Utley House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"916 Hay St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fayetteville","county":"Cumberland County","state":"NC","lat":35.05644125500004,"lon":-78.89598017699996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-07-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-one-half story frame gable-roof house at 916 Hay Street in Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina, built about 1848 in the village of Belmont in Haymount, west of the town limits. William Taylor built it and Joseph Utley later occupied it.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the house as a typical example of vernacular Greek Revival architecture of the 1840s in Belmont and outlying Fayetteville. It is also tied to the westward development stimulated by the U.S. Arsenal. Its first two owners, William Taylor and Joseph Utley, were merchants in the town's inland port and trading economy.","narrative":"Built around 1848 at 916 Hay Street in Fayetteville, this two-and-one-half story frame house sits in what was once the village of Belmont, a small settlement in Haymount about a mile west of town. Belmont grew up beside the United States Arsenal on land Captain James A. J. Bradford divided into lots. Merchant William Taylor bought the lot in 1847 and built the house, but financial trouble forced a sale in 1858 to Joseph Utley, a forwarding and commission merchant who served as a church deacon and on a 1862 Committee of Safety. The house shows vernacular Greek Revival features: a side-hall plan, shed porch, sidelights and transom at the entrance, heavy gable returns, and post-and-lintel mantels. A two-story west wing added in 1932, along with later porch and kitchen changes, respected the original style. It represents the homes merchants built on Fayetteville's developing edges before the Civil War.","period_of_significance":"c. 1848","architect_builder":"unknown","architectural_style":"Vernacular Greek Revival","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Private residence, occupied. The form notes twentieth-century modernizations including a 1932 west wing and a modern interior kitchen.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:57.708821-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/55/7175/47717555/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/83001872.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001872/1b867139be-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001872/1b867139be-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"81ironhead","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taylor-Utley_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">81ironhead</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taylor-Utley_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717555","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor-Utley_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18217477"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/cumberland-county/taylor-utley-house-83001872/"}