{"nrhp_refnum":"89000032","name":"Smith-Williams-Durham Boarding House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"247 5th Ave. West","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hendersonville","county":"Henderson County","state":"NC","lat":35.31774074400005,"lon":-82.46249873499994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-02-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Entertainment/Recreation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame former dwelling on a city lot west of the Main Street Historic District in Hendersonville, Henderson County, North Carolina. It was built in 1909 as a one-story cottage and remodeled in 1918 into a boarding house.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a fine example of the many Hendersonville homes converted into boarding houses in the early 20th century, during the town's period as a railroad-era tourist and resort destination. It is representative of the Inns, Boarding Houses, and Hotels property type, and its 1918 remodeling created the building's boarding-house form.","narrative":"Two-story frame house on a city lot in Hendersonville, North Carolina, built in 1909 as a one-story cottage for T. M. Smith and enlarged in 1918 into a boarding house. The 1918 work raised the cottage to two stories, added a two-story wing on the east side, and expanded the building to thirteen bedrooms and nine baths. Its Classical Revival entrance and porch sit within a rambling plan shaped by the conversion to lodging. Lillie and Jonathan Williams ran it as a year-round boarding house after 1918, and after a 1933 public auction Kate Durham operated it until 1980. It is significant as one of many Hendersonville homes turned into boarding houses during the town's early twentieth-century growth as a railroad-era resort, when visitors arrived in numbers. It stands as a fine example of that property type. Interior features include late Victorian mantels in the west rooms, which date to the original house, and a Craftsman brick fireplace in the former main parlor.","period_of_significance":"1918-1929","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Classical Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Converted to commercial use and now serves as office space for a travel agency, a real estate company, and several other small businesses.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.269211-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/7/7180/47718007/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/89000032.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718007","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith-Williams-Durham_Boarding_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24041332"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/henderson-county/smith-williams-durham-boarding-house-89000032/"}