{"nrhp_refnum":"86003529","name":"Beaver Dam","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"SR 2049 at SR 2233","address_restricted":false,"city":"Knightdale","county":"Wake County","state":"NC","lat":35.81176697150005,"lon":-78.48480088389235,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-01-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Beaver Dam is a two-story, hall-and-parlor plantation house built about 1810 on a knoll north of SR 2049 in the Knightdale vicinity of eastern Wake County, North Carolina. It sits on an 86-acre home tract that is still farmed.","why_significant":"The house was the seat of a plantation of about 4,000 acres in the first half of the 19th century and kept operating as a farm into the 20th century. It is a good vernacular interpretation of Georgian-Federal transitional design and keeps most of its original interior and exterior finish. It is also one of a small number of plantations left in rapidly urbanizing Wake County.","narrative":"Beaver Dam is a farmhouse and former plantation seat in eastern Wake County, North Carolina, built about 1810 for William Hinton on a knoll above SR 2049. Its two stories follow a hall-and-parlor plan with two rear shed rooms, double-shouldered brick chimneys laid in Flemish bond, beaded weatherboard siding and nine-over-nine sash windows. Inside, raised-panel wainscot, simple Federal mantels, oversized six-panel doors on H and L hinges and the original stair survive. Only the rear shed rooms, a bath and a kitchen ell reflect later household needs. The plantation once covered about 4,000 acres under the Hinton family and later passed through the Seawell, Dunn, Nowell, Jeffreys and other owners, always as a working farm. The surrounding land now holds early twentieth-century barns and tobacco barns, plus an early detached kitchen. The house was listed as an unspoiled vernacular example of its period in a county that is quickly urbanizing.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Unknown (built for William Hinton between about 1807 and 1810)","architectural_style":"Georgian-Federal transitional vernacular","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Listed as occupied, in excellent condition, on its original site, with some alterations; used as a private residence and for agriculture.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:49.805964-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/93/7224/47722493/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/86003529.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86003529/9ddb803e3e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86003529/9ddb803e3e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Nicholas Oren Rawlings","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beaver_Dam_SE.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nicholas Oren Rawlings</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beaver_Dam_SE.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722493","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver_Dam_(Knightdale,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4878054"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wake-county/beaver-dam-86003529/"}