{"nrhp_refnum":"90001312","name":"Brabson, Dr. Alexander C., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"SR 1118, 0.6 mile S. of jct. with SR 1115","address_restricted":false,"city":"Otto","county":"Macon County","state":"NC","lat":35.07919668800005,"lon":-83.39030958858518,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-08-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Health/Medicine","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame farmhouse with a one-story rear ell, built in 1884 on about thirty-eight acres of pasture and woodland near Otto, Macon County, North Carolina, for country physician Dr. Alexander C. Brabson.","why_significant":"The house is argued to be significant under Criterion A for health and medicine, because its layout shows how a rural doctor combined a home, office and working farm in the late nineteenth century. It is significant under Criterion C as a relatively intact example of a traditional hall-and-parlor, central-chimney frame house of western North Carolina. Its surviving acreage preserves the appearance of the 1880s despite the surrounding resort development.","narrative":"Set alone in a pasture near Otto in Macon County, North Carolina, this two-story weatherboarded farmhouse was built in 1884 for Dr. Alexander C. Brabson, who began practicing medicine in the county in 1870. The side-gabled house has a central brick chimney, a one-story rear ell that began as a detached kitchen, and a full-facade porch added about 1906. A small vestibule inside the double-leaf pine door gave patients private access to the parlor, which served as the doctor's office. Most of his care was delivered on horseback, and patients often paid in produce, labor or farm work, so the surrounding acreage supplemented his income. The house is also a relatively intact example of a hall-and-parlor, central-chimney frame house, with a boxed stair and enclosed breezeway recalling earlier log building traditions. More than thirty-eight acres of pasture and woodland survive, and they keep the setting close to its 1880s appearance despite nearby vacation development.","period_of_significance":"1834-1917","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Plain traditional and vernacular (19th and 20th century)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still in use as a single dwelling; the form says the property is now entirely pasture and woodland, with some repairs and modern improvements made to the house.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:51.040362-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/32/7211/47721132/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/90001312.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001312/d3ec2a576c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001312/d3ec2a576c-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Warren LeMay from Cullowhee, NC, United States","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dr._Alexander_C._Brabson_House,_Otto,_NC_(49081632048).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Warren LeMay from Cullowhee, NC, 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:Dr._Alexander_C._Brabson_House,_Otto,_NC_(49081632048).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721132","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Alexander_C._Brabson_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17514700"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/macon-county/brabson-dr-alexander-c-house-90001312/"}