{"nrhp_refnum":"90001371","name":"Long, McCorkle and Murray Houses","other_names":["Luther F. Long House","George McCorkle House","Murray--Miller Ho"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"1310--1326 N. Main Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Newton","county":"Catawba County","state":"NC","lat":35.676528992000044,"lon":-81.22102792799996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-09-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A row of three frame houses at 1310-1326 North Main Avenue in Newton, Catawba County, North Carolina: a Queen Anne house built circa 1890 and two Bungalow-style houses built circa 1902 and circa 1920, with outbuildings and landscaped grounds.","why_significant":"The three houses together show a range of architectural styles from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The McCorkle House is one of the most outstanding Queen Anne dwellings remaining in Newton. The Long House is a very early Bungalow for the town with an eclectic interior, and the Murray House is a more standard Bungalow with Craftsman interior detailing. They are listed under Criterion C as examples of Catawba County post-bellum and twentieth-century houses.","narrative":"Three houses on the west side of the 1300 block of North Main Avenue in Newton form a small cluster of early twentieth-century and late Victorian architecture. The oldest is the McCorkle House, built around 1890 by attorney George McCorkle. It is a two-story Queen Anne dwelling with a five-gable roof, fishscale shingles, a wraparound porch and a late Victorian stairway. Next to it, the Long House was built by railroad agent Luther Freeman Long after he bought the lot in 1902. It is a large Bungalow with a porte-cochere, a shed dormer and an interior mixing Colonial Revival, Tudor and Craftsman details. Landscaped grounds, a garage and a servant's house accompany it. At the south end, the Murray House, built about 1920, is a Bungalow covered entirely in dark green wood shingles, with stone porch posts and a large stone mantel. Together the houses are recognized for their architecture and good preservation.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1890; ca. 1902; ca. 1920","architect_builder":"Unknown (houses built by George McCorkle, Luther Freeman Long, and apparently Grover E. Murray)","architectural_style":"Queen Anne; Bungalow/Craftsman","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"All three houses are in use as single dwellings and are described as having excellent integrity. A small log commercial building on the Long property is vacant, and the Murray garage is seriously deteriorated.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:49.963213-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/94/7173/47717394/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/90001371.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717394","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long,_McCorkle_and_Murray_Houses","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18153774"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/catawba-county/long-mccorkle-and-murray-houses-90001371/"}