{"nrhp_refnum":"86000413","name":"Favoni-Harris, Dr. Charles and William Shakespeare House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"SR 1445","address_restricted":false,"city":"Poplar Tent","county":"Cabarrus County","state":"NC","lat":35.390034637500065,"lon":-80.71996545280409,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-03-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Health/Medicine","Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"\"Favoni,\" a two-part farmhouse in western Cabarrus County near Poplar Tent, North Carolina, with a log section built about 1791 and a frame Greek Revival section added about 1840 by the Harris family.","why_significant":"The log section keeps the most intact late eighteenth century interior in Cabarrus County, combining Georgian and Federal details. The frame section is one of the county's most sophisticated Greek Revival houses, with the county's best marbleizing. The property is also tied to Dr. Charles Harris, a physician said to have run an early medical school, and to his son William Shakespeare Harris, a planter and legislator.","narrative":"Favoni is a two-story house on a hill above Rocky River in western Cabarrus County, made up of two single-pile blocks. The older block is log, probably built soon after Dr. Charles Harris inherited the land in 1791, and its interior blends Georgian and Federal details, including a stair with heavy turned balusters and a mantel covered in reeding found nowhere else in the county. About 1840 his son, William Shakespeare Harris, added a frame Greek Revival block with a hip roof, a porch with paired Tuscan columns, and marbleized mantels. Dr. Harris trained in medicine, practiced in Salisbury, and is believed to have taught students in a log building on the property. His son served several terms in the state legislature and held many enslaved people. The house is unoccupied and badly deteriorated, though preservation groups were seeking a restoring buyer. Its main importance lies in showing how substantial local houses changed over two generations.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Georgian and Federal (log section); Greek Revival (frame section)","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Described as unoccupied and vacant, deteriorated and altered; the Historic Preservation Foundation of North Carolina was negotiating an option to sell it to an owner who would restore it.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:49.403592-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/67/7193/47719367/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/86000413.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719367","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favoni","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25247491"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/cabarrus-county/favoni-harris-dr-charles-and-william-shakespeare-house-86000413/"}