{"nrhp_refnum":"86001641","name":"Swindell, Albin B., House and Store","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"US 264","address_restricted":false,"city":"Swindell Fork","county":"Hyde County","state":"NC","lat":35.43461862800004,"lon":-76.28253789108635,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-08-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A rural general store and farmhouse complex with outbuildings at Swindell Fork, a crossroads community in Hyde County, North Carolina. The store dates from about 1890 and the house was expanded in 1903 on land acquired by Albin B. Swindell in 1877.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the complex is locally important as the center of Swindell Fork, a small trading and community center that operated for over a hundred years and served as a post office and early telephone site. The store and house are described as an essentially unchanged early twentieth-century mercantile and farm operation, and as the most intact survivor of its type in Hyde County outside the Lake Landing Historic District.","narrative":"Near the junction of two roads in rural Hyde County, the Swindell complex centers on a one-story frame general store built about 1890 and a two-story I-house whose present form dates to a 1903 expansion. Albin B. Swindell opened a store in a barn here in 1875 and bought the surrounding 120 acres in 1877. The store sold dry goods, hats, boots, and country produce, and customers often settled accounts by barter. It also housed the community's first post office, around 1900, and an early telephone. Outbuildings include a smokehouse, pumphouse, chicken house, and washhouse/packhouse, all dating from about 1903 to 1945. The store has remained a focal point for nearby farmers, hunters, and fishermen for more than a century, and the nomination regards the group as an intact example of a crossroads trading center.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1875-1930","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"I house","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"The store was moved a short distance in about 1920 when the highway was widened; the store closed in 1978 and is now an informal family-owned museum.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:40.960392-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/6/7209/47720906/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/86001641.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720906","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albin_B._Swindell_House_and_Store","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19882007"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/hyde-county/swindell-albin-b-house-and-store-86001641/"}