{"nrhp_refnum":"84001934","name":"Reynolds House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"100 Reynolds Hts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Asheville","county":"Buncombe County","state":"NC","lat":35.643648635000034,"lon":-82.57787406999995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-09-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A brick double-pile dwelling on a ridge of Reynolds Mountain about three miles north of downtown Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. Daniel Reynolds built its core around 1855, and it was extensively remodeled around 1905 in Colonial Revival style.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as one of very few surviving antebellum brick houses in the Asheville area, built to a full two-story, central-hall, two-room-deep plan. It is also called one of the county's more consequential Colonial Revival dwellings after its early twentieth-century remodeling. It has an association with U.S. Senator Robert Rice Reynolds, and it reflects the antebellum prosperity of Asheville and Buncombe County.","narrative":"Perched on a ridge of Reynolds Mountain north of Asheville, this brick house began around 1855 as the home of Daniel Reynolds, a farmer, former hotel keeper and unsuccessful candidate for the state House of Commons. Its two-story, central-hall, double-pile plan was rare in mountain North Carolina before the Civil War, when fewer than ten brick houses survive from the era. Around 1905 Nathaniel Augustus Reynolds remodeled it thoroughly, adding a finished third floor under a dormered mansard roof, bathrooms, Colonial Revival woodwork and wraparound porches with Tuscan columns. The original brick walls and heavy timber framing remain beneath the later finishes. The house also has ties to Senator Robert Rice Reynolds, a colorful and controversial figure whose father, mother and uncle owned or lived in the property. It stayed in the Reynolds family until 1973 and later was rehabilitated for use as a bed and breakfast inn.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899, 1900- (specific dates ca. 1855; ca. 1905)","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival (ca. 1905 remodeling of an antebellum double-pile brick house)","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Occupied and in use as a bed and breakfast inn; rehabilitation was 80 to 90 percent complete at the time of nomination, after earlier deterioration of porches and rainwater damage.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:50.236961-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/40/7192/47719240/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/84001934.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84001934/4bbf0c6df9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84001934/4bbf0c6df9-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"rossograph","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reynolds_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:Reynolds_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719240","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynolds_House_(Asheville,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18157220"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/buncombe-county/reynolds-house-84001934/"}