{"nrhp_refnum":"88000127","name":"McKaughan, Isaac Harrison, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"506 Salisbury St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Kernersville","county":"Forsyth County","state":"NC","lat":36.11372420200007,"lon":-80.07755817199995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-02-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, L-shaped brick Italianate house at 506 Salisbury Street in Kernersville, Forsyth County, North Carolina, built about 1875 as the seat of a working farm.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is the most intact surviving example of the 1870s two-story brick T- and L-plan Italianate houses built in Kernersville. It keeps its original exterior detailing, including the bracketed cornice and porch brackets, and its late Greek Revival/Italianate interior trim. It escaped the large rear additions made to other surviving houses of this type.","narrative":"Built about 1875 on the outskirts of Kernersville, this two-story common bond brick house at 506 Salisbury Street follows an L-shaped plan with a center hall, one room deep, and a two-room rear ell. Italianate features include a bracketed cornice, segmentally arched bays, arched gable ventilators, and a one-story front porch with original brackets. Inside, the narrow hall holds a closed-string stair, and the parlors have Italianate mantels and late Greek Revival trim. Isaac Harrison McKaughan, born in 1837, began buying land in 1874 and eventually assembled a farm of at least 477 acres, with this house as its seat. The house is slightly plainer than comparable town houses of the period. It is regarded as the most intact of the 1870s brick Italianate houses in Kernersville, retaining original detailing and avoiding large rear additions. The farm has since been divided and developed, leaving only the house lot.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1875","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Historic and current use is a single dwelling; the house was being restored by its new owners at the time of nomination.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:50.365431-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/3/7178/47717803/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/88000127.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88000127/567baea90a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88000127/567baea90a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Pubdog","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Isaac_Harrison_McKaughan_House_Kernersville_NC_Jan_2015.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Pubdog</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:Isaac_Harrison_McKaughan_House_Kernersville_NC_Jan_2015.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"88000137","name":"South Main Street Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/south-main-street-historic-district-88000137/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717803","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Harrison_McKaughan_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19987049"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/forsyth-county/mckaughan-isaac-harrison-house-88000127/"}