{"nrhp_refnum":"89002133","name":"Hedden, Elisha Calor, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Main St. and Old Webster-Sylva Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Webster","county":"Jackson County","state":"NC","lat":35.34641680400006,"lon":-83.21862557199995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-12-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story Queen Anne style frame house with a wrap-around porch and a matching carriage house, on about one acre at the southeast corner of Main Street and the old Webster-Sylva road in Webster, Jackson County, North Carolina. It was built about 1910 for Elisha Calor Hedden.","why_significant":"The house is presented as one of Jackson County's best examples of a large frame home built by a mountain family that moved to town to join the region's growing lumber industry. It is also Webster's largest remaining house. Its extensive random-width beadboard interior and wood detailing are described as a tribute to lumbering and woodworking, and it symbolizes the shift from self-sufficient farming to industrial wage work.","narrative":"Built about 1910 in the village of Webster, Jackson County, North Carolina, this two-story Queen Anne house is the largest surviving house in town. Its white weatherboard exterior has a hipped roof, cross gables and a wrap-around porch with slender Doric columns. A frame carriage house of the same date sits at the southeast corner. Inside, random-width beadboard covers the walls and ceilings of a long central hall and all ten principal rooms, left in natural finish. Elisha Calor Hedden sold his mountain farm and timber lands to pay for the house, then worked for the Carr Lumber Company until he retired. He lived there until his death in 1938. The house was recognized for its architecture and as a symbol of Jackson County's turn-of-the-century move from subsistence farming to lumbering, mining and wage work. For several years the family rented a first-floor apartment to the family of future governor Daniel Killian Moore.","period_of_significance":"c. 1910-1938","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Queen Anne","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still used as a single dwelling, with a first-floor apartment; the rear porch was enclosed and a deck added about 1985, and the carriage house is unchanged.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:48.823935-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/46/7209/47720946/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/89002133.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89002133/b0104abeb4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89002133/b0104abeb4-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Warren LeMay from Cincinnati, OH, United States","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elisha_Calor_Hedden_House,_Webster,_NC_(46615328691).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Warren LeMay from Cincinnati, OH, United States</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:Elisha_Calor_Hedden_House,_Webster,_NC_(46615328691).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720946","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha_Calor_Hedden_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19462261"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/jackson-county/hedden-elisha-calor-house-89002133/"}