{"nrhp_refnum":"83001897","name":"Blue, Daniel, House","other_names":["Highlanders Farm"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"SR 1836","address_restricted":false,"city":"Carthage","county":"Moore County","state":"NC","lat":35.28202447450005,"lon":-79.42526301352186,"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":"A two-story, gable-roof log house in Moore County, North Carolina, known as the River Daniel Blue House, built ca. 1795 and weatherboarded. It stands with outbuildings on a farm that has remained in the Blue family.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is one of the few surviving log houses of its period and shows how an early log structure evolved over time. It also associates the property with Scot settler River Daniel Blue, who bought it in 1804, and with his descendants who farmed the land, and with the Scottish Highlander immigration into the Sandhills.","narrative":"Built around 1795 in Moore County, North Carolina, the River Daniel Blue House is a two-story, gable-roof log house with hand-hewn pegged sills set on lightwood blocks and large stones. Its walls were weatherboarded, and the interior includes heart pine sheathing, a stair with square balusters and a molded handrail, and two stepped-shoulder chimneys. The house takes its name from Scot settler River Daniel Blue, who bought it in 1804, and his descendants farmed the surrounding land for generations. Additions were made in the nineteenth century and in 1918, when a kitchen ell was built and the loft was finished. The nomination regards it as one of the few surviving log houses of its period and as an example of how such a structure changed over time. Its farm also illustrates the Scottish Highlander settlement of the Sandhills and the farm economy of North Carolina. Outbuildings on the property include a one-room log structure and a former turpentine depot on a rail line.","period_of_significance":"ca.1795","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","B","C","D"],"status_note":"The house is empty, having been occupied by the owner's mother until her death in 1980.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.429347-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/25/7214/47721425/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/83001897.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721425","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Blue_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19460580"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/moore-county/blue-daniel-house-83001897/"}