{"nrhp_refnum":"89001418","name":"Umstead, Adolphus W., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NC 1607, 0.5 mi. N of NC 1611","address_restricted":false,"city":"Bahama","county":"Durham County","state":"NC","lat":36.18430794550005,"lon":-78.85477460921732,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-09-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, three-bay, single-pile mid-nineteenth century I-house with Greek Revival details, standing on a forty-acre wooded tract on the west side of Copley Road about 1.5 miles north of Bahama in northeast Durham County, North Carolina. It includes a rear ell, a one-story west wing, and a surviving late-nineteenth-century stable.","why_significant":"The house is argued to be a good representative example of a mid-nineteenth century piedmont North Carolina vernacular I-house with Greek Revival details, a farmhouse type that is increasingly rare in Durham County. It is built around an earlier one-room log house and is the earliest surviving house associated with the Umstead family, locally prominent settlers and farmers. The nomination also cites its well-executed restoration.","narrative":"Built around 1850 as a two-story, three-bay I-house with Greek Revival details, the Adolphus W. Umstead House stands on a clearing within a forty-acre wooded tract near Bahama in northeast Durham County. It has a fieldstone foundation, fieldstone and brick chimneys, a center hall plan, a sidelighted double-leaf entrance, and hand-planed pine board walls. Its west side encloses an earlier one-room log house whose loft is reached by an enclosed corner stair. The house is linked to the Umstead family, who settled along Dial Creek in the late eighteenth century and farmed the land for generations. Adolphus Umstead, for whom the house is named, farmed about 150 acres and operated a grist mill on Dial Creek in the 1880s. The house was vacant and deteriorated when bought in 1978 and has since been restored. Its nomination rests on its value as a representative example of a farmhouse type that has become scarce in Durham County.","period_of_significance":"C. 1850-1928","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival; vernacular I-house","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Restored and renovated by the owners who bought it in 1978 after it had been vacant and deteriorated; the stable is in use for storage.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.20985-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/48/7200/47720048/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/89001418.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720048","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolphus_W._Umstead_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23073327"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/durham-county/umstead-adolphus-w-house-89001418/"}