{"nrhp_refnum":"89000034","name":"Chewning House","other_names":["McCurry Hotel","Charleston Boarding House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"755 N. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hendersonville","county":"Henderson County","state":"NC","lat":35.320641238000064,"lon":-82.46123090499998,"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 large three-story frame boarding house at 755 N. Main Street in Hendersonville, North Carolina, built before 1906 as a two-story house and enlarged between 1912 and 1922. It has twenty guest rooms and sits two blocks north of the central business district.","why_significant":"It is one of the few large boarding houses in downtown Hendersonville still serving its original purpose. It reflects the tourism boom that began in the late 19th century and continued through the 1920s. Its architecture shows the simpler domestic styles of the 1920s, with simpler interior detailing and classic proportions.","narrative":"Chewning House is a large frame boarding house at 755 N. Main Street in Hendersonville, North Carolina, two blocks north of the central business district. It began before 1906 as a two-story late Victorian house with weatherboard walls and a brick foundation. Between 1912 and 1922 it was raised to three stories and given a dining room wing, a wraparound porch and twenty guest rooms. Deed records show it passed through several owners, was known as the Smith-Green House and the Charleston Boarding House, and took its present name from L. R. and Mattie Chewning, who bought it in 1916. It is listed for its architecture and its place in the town's tourism history. Along with the neighboring Waverly, it is one of the few large boarding houses downtown still used as lodging. Its simpler 1920s detailing contrasts with the Victorian character of its neighbor, and it still operates as an inn.","period_of_significance":"1906-1929","architect_builder":"unknown","architectural_style":"Classical Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still operating as an inn, now called the Claddagh Inn.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:49.800273-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/95/7179/47717995/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/89000034.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000034/cd315fe83d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000034/cd315fe83d-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Mx. Granger","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Claddagh_Inn.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Mx. Granger</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Claddagh_Inn.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717995","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewning_House_(Hendersonville,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19460963"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/henderson-county/chewning-house-89000034/"}