{"nrhp_refnum":"89001046","name":"Spears House","other_names":["Caldwell Creek Farm","Eudy Farm"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"1615 Morrison Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Concord","county":"Cabarrus County","state":"NC","lat":35.254321323000056,"lon":-80.60260729580853,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-08-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A log dogtrot farmhouse on a 38.5-acre tract along Caldwell Creek in rural Cabarrus County near Concord, North Carolina, built in stages between roughly 1760 and the first quarter of the 19th century, with outbuildings from the 1979-1983 farm revival.","why_significant":"The nomination argues local architectural significance. The original pen is probably one of the earliest surviving houses in Cabarrus County, and the dogtrot is the only remaining log dogtrot in the county. The house also reflects Scotch-Irish log building traditions and is tied to early settler families of the Rocky River community.","narrative":"This log dogtrot house sits on its original site beside Caldwell Creek in rural Cabarrus County. It grew in stages. A one-room log pen, probably built between about 1760 and 1795, was joined to a larger, finely hewn second pen built around 1796 to 1800, probably by William Wallace Spears. The two were united as a dogtrot by the first quarter of the 19th century. A frame rear ell was added near the middle of the century, and part of it was later lost to a fallen tree. The house was vacated in 1961, then restored between 1982 and 1987 to its dogtrot form, using hand-hewn replacement logs cut on the farm. It is considered locally significant for architecture. The first pen is probably among the oldest surviving buildings in the county, and the house is the county's only remaining log dogtrot. Its half-dovetail notching and pen proportions reflect Scotch-Irish building traditions. The property is also linked to the Caldwell, Spears and Pharr families of the Rocky River community.","period_of_significance":"1st quarter 19th century","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Half-dovetail log dogtrot","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Vacated in 1961; the log house was restored to its early dogtrot form from 1982 to 1987, and the surrounding land returned to an operating farm in 1979. Listed as a single dwelling in current use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:50.249727-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/31/7193/47719331/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/89001046.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001046/40f4e6b887-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001046/40f4e6b887-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"RoxylovesHistory","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spears_House_2.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">RoxylovesHistory</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:Spears_House_2.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719331","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spears_House_(Concord,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18158298"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/cabarrus-county/spears-house-89001046/"}