{"nrhp_refnum":"90000665","name":"Sherrill, Miles Alexander, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"W side of SR 1849, 0.1 mi. S of SR 1848 jct.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Sherrills Ford","county":"Catawba County","state":"NC","lat":35.62696089700006,"lon":-81.00752965099997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-04-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame Stick style house built in 1886 near Sherrills Ford in rural southeast Catawba County, North Carolina, for miller and farmer Miles Alexander Sherrill. It is regarded as an extremely intact example of the style for the county.","why_significant":"The house was designed by Charles Henry Lester, the county's first known architect, and is one of only a few surviving county houses known to be wholly his work. It appears to follow plates in Palliser's Model Homes (1878), making it a rare patternbook house in Catawba County. Its asymmetrical plan and three-dimensional corner mantels are considered unusual for the county.","narrative":"Built in 1886 near Sherrills Ford in southeast Catawba County, this two-story frame cottage was designed for the miller and farmer Miles Alexander Sherrill by Charles Henry Lester, the county's first known architect. Its irregular massing, steeply pitched gables, German siding with boarded overlay, and chamfered porch posts give it a Stick style character that is unusual for the county. The interior includes corner fireplaces with sawnwork brackets and a stairway with a carved newel. Lester appears to have drawn closely on plates in Palliser's Model Homes, published in Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 1878. The house is one of only a few surviving county houses known to be wholly his work, and it is valued as a rare patternbook example in a county dominated by vernacular housing. Its outbuildings include a nineteenth-century one-room schoolhouse associated with the local Black community, which is noncontributing.","period_of_significance":"1886","architect_builder":"Charles Henry Lester (architect)","architectural_style":"Stick/Eastlake","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"One interior mantel was stolen while the house was vacant; the present owners are renovating the house.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.270373-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/96/7173/47717396/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/90000665.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717396","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Alexander_Sherrill_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18158011"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/catawba-county/sherrill-miles-alexander-house-90000665/"}