{"nrhp_refnum":"83001883","name":"Carpenter, Andrew, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"SR 1820","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lucia","county":"Gaston County","state":"NC","lat":35.38874789600004,"lon":-81.05172226644223,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-03-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, five-bay, double-pile Federal style frame plantation house built in 1836-1837 on a knoll overlooking Leeper's Creek, on the north side of SR 1820 near Lucia, Gaston County, North Carolina, with three early twentieth-century outbuildings.","why_significant":"The house is a handsome, largely intact example of a Federal plantation house with surviving vernacular Federal woodwork and hand-hewn, numbered mortise-and-tenon framing. It also typifies the pattern of antebellum plantation houses that declined after the Civil War as plantations broke up into smaller farms and tenancy. It served as the center of Andrew Carpenter's plantation and as a stagecoach stop on the Charlotte-Lincolnton road.","narrative":"Standing on a knoll above Leeper's Creek near Lucia, this two-story, five-bay frame house was built in 1836-1837 for Andrew Carpenter, who bought the land in 1835 and ran a plantation worked by enslaved laborers. Its location on the main road between Charlotte and Lincolnton made it a stagecoach stop, which Carpenter called Happy Home. The house has Flemish bond brick foundations, exterior shoulder chimneys, and a Federal interior with molded chair rails, six-panel doors, and mantels, some now stored in the granary. Hand-hewn attic timbers carry sequential Roman numerals. Three early twentieth-century outbuildings, a well house, a barn and a granary, are included. After the Civil War the plantation was reduced and the house stayed in the Carpenter family but fell into disrepair. It is regarded as typical of antebellum plantation houses that declined with the Old South, and preservation groups have sought to rehabilitate it.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal","criteria":[],"status_note":"Deteriorating and unoccupied; recent tenants have lived there, repairs to the roof have been made, and preservation groups are seeking a buyer to restore it. The rear ell is beyond salvage and is to be replaced.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:58.432474-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/67/7203/47720367/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/83001883.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001883/004ea269d2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001883/004ea269d2-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Upstateherd","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Andrew_Carpenter_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Upstateherd</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:Andrew_Carpenter_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720367","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Carpenter_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4756557"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/gaston-county/carpenter-andrew-house-83001883/"}