{"nrhp_refnum":"83001916","name":"Monroe, Robert Nancy, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"SR 1328","address_restricted":false,"city":"Silver Hill","county":"Scotland County","state":"NC","lat":34.88529387900007,"lon":-79.48500122195337,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-03-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-and-a-half story frame Queen Anne style house with an attic half-story, set behind a pecan grove near the community of Silver Hill in Scotland County, North Carolina. It was completed in 1912 by the builder Marshall Smith.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is among the most ambitious and picturesque Queen Anne houses in Scotland County, with the most elaborate imbricated wood shingling in the county. It is described as the finest frame example of the county's so-called cotton boom houses of 1890 to 1918. It is also associated with the Monroe and McMillan families, large landowners and local leaders in agriculture, religion, education and business.","narrative":"Completed in 1912 by the builder Marshall Smith near Silver Hill in Scotland County, this one-and-a-half story frame house blends Queen Anne massing with Classical Revival and Colonial Revival details. Its many gables and dormers are sheathed in intricate imbricated wooden shingles, the most elaborate shingling in the county, and a three-stage tower on the rear west elevation is fully shingled. A wrap-around porch rests on Tuscan columns, and a pecan grove frames the house. Robert Nancy Monroe, a planter, miller and merchant, died in 1911 before the house was finished, and it became the home of his widow, Margaret McMillan Monroe, and their children. The house is regarded as the finest frame example of the cotton boom houses built in the county during the prosperous years before 1918. Its association with the Monroe and McMillan families, both large landholders, adds local historical importance.","period_of_significance":"1912","architect_builder":"Marshall Smith (builder)","architectural_style":"Queen Anne","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Still owned and occupied by descendants of the Monroe family; an original portico was removed around 1925.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.997591-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/31/7222/47722231/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/83001916.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722231","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Nancy_Monroe_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19987153"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/scotland-county/monroe-robert-nancy-house-83001916/"}