{"nrhp_refnum":"88001253","name":"Adoniram Masonic Lodge","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Jct. of NC 1410 and NC 1300","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cornwall","county":"Granville County","state":"NC","lat":36.47991750300005,"lon":-78.66579275936436,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-08-31","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, one-room-deep frame building with weatherboard siding at the junction of State Roads 1410 and 1300 in Cornwall, Granville County, North Carolina. Built in 1917 as a Masonic lodge with a school on the ground floor, it was moved a few hundred yards to its present site in 1948.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the lodge represents the social and educational life of rural Granville County in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Its I-house form is typical of the county but unusual for North Carolina Masonic lodges, and its interior plan and porch reveal its non-residential purpose. The significance period ends in 1937 because later history is not considered exceptionally important.","narrative":"Adoniram Masonic Lodge No. 149 is a two-story frame building in Cornwall, Granville County, built in 1917 after lightning destroyed an earlier lodge on nearly the same site. Its form resembles the many I-houses raised in the county during the bright leaf tobacco era, but a four-bay facade, enclosed porch end bays and a downstairs divided into two equal rooms show its public purpose. The ground floor served as a public school until the early 1920s, while the Masons met upstairs in a large lodge room with a side hall and preparation room. The Masons bought the building in 1928 and moved it a few hundred yards in 1948 when the Cornwall Road was rerouted. In the early 1970s the upstairs was paneled over. The lodge is valued as a local example of the social and educational life of rural Granville County between 1917 and 1937, and the Masons still use the upper floor.","period_of_significance":"1917-1937","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Other: I-house","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"The Masons still use the upstairs as a lodge; the downstairs, occasionally rented as a dwelling since 1924, is now vacant.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:50.341181-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/23/7179/47717923/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/88001253.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717923","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoniram_Masonic_Lodge","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19460108"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/granville-county/adoniram-masonic-lodge-88001253/"}