{"nrhp_refnum":"84000074","name":"Cobb, John Franklin, House","other_names":["Cobb Plantation"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"U.S. 19-129","address_restricted":false,"city":"Bell View","county":"Cherokee County","state":"NC","lat":35.00202994400007,"lon":-84.08425298399999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-10-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Entertainment/Recreation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A log-cored farmhouse, also called Cobb Plantation, near Bell View in southern Cherokee County, North Carolina, about one mile north of the Georgia line. John Franklin Cobb built the original log cabin in 1863, and rooms were added from the 1870s through the 1940s.","why_significant":"The nomination cites the house as the occasional childhood summer home of baseball great Ty Cobb, who gained his earliest baseball experience in nearby Murphy and Andrews. It also argues that the 1863 log cabin is typical of traditional southern Appalachian log dwellings and remains basically intact despite many additions. The house is one of only five or so surviving pre-1865 structures in the county.","narrative":"Near the Georgia line in southern Cherokee County, this farmhouse began as a one-room log cabin built by John Franklin Cobb in 1863. Cobb was a farmer and local magistrate. Over the next eight decades his family added a kitchen ell, extra bedrooms, a music room, a shed kitchen and a screened porch, all in frame and covered with weatherboard. The result is an informal, additive folk building. The nomination notes that it is one of only five or so surviving pre-1865 structures in the county. The house is also tied to baseball player Ty Cobb, John Cobb's grandson. As a teenager he spent summers here, where his grandparents encouraged his playing, and his aunt drove him by buggy to games in Murphy and Andrews. A stone-lined spring on the property holds a plaque placed in 1941 honoring him. The house stayed in the Cobb family until 1977.","period_of_significance":"1863 and later (specific dates given; 1800-1899 and 1900- checked)","architect_builder":"Unknown (built by John Franklin Cobb, per the description)","architectural_style":"Folk building; log cabin core with additive frame construction","criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"Occupied as a private residence, in good and basically sound condition, and carefully maintained by its owners. It was usually vacant for a period after 1959 before being sold in 1977.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:48.917915-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/85/7195/47719585/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/84000074.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84000074/b5da641570-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84000074/b5da641570-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"rossograph","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Franlkin_Cobb_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">rossograph</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Franlkin_Cobb_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719585","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Franklin_Cobb_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16988425"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/cherokee-county/cobb-john-franklin-house-84000074/"}