{"nrhp_refnum":"90001372","name":"Cooper, Robert Lafayette, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"109 Campbell St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Murphey","county":"Cherokee County","state":"NC","lat":35.08710078100006,"lon":-84.03043468999994,"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 large two-story frame Queen Anne house at 109 Campbell Street in Murphy, Cherokee County, North Carolina, built 1889-1891 for attorney and banker Robert Lafayette Cooper and enlarged in 1903-1904. A small garage added about 1930 stands on the lot.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a rare and excellent example of Queen Anne architecture in western North Carolina, where vernacular forms predominate. It cites the asymmetrical massing, towers, bays, porches and varied native-wood interior detailing, much of it still intact. It is considered significant at the local level under architecture.","narrative":"Built between 1889 and 1891 on Campbell Street in Murphy, this two-story frame house was constructed by Robert Lafayette Cooper, a lawyer, banker and local politician, as a wedding present for his wife, Grace Pruden Cooper. Its irregular massing includes hipped and gabled roofs, octagonal towers, bays and a sawnwork porch, all sheathed in weatherboard and decorative shingles. The Coopers remodeled and enlarged it in 1903-1904, adding porches, a sitting room and elaborate interior detail. Inside, rooms feature parquet floors and wainscoting in walnut, cherry, oak, maple and pine, along with spindlework and stained glass. No architect has been identified; Cooper's account books show how closely the couple supervised the work, using lumber from his own timberlands and locally fired brick. The second floor became an apartment in the 1930s. The house was listed for its architecture, as the fullest local expression of the Queen Anne style in Cherokee County, and for the survival of its original and early features.","period_of_significance":"1889-1891; 1903-1904","architect_builder":"Not known; no architect or builder definitely identified (Robert Lafayette Cooper and wife Grace Pruden Cooper took a strong role in design and construction)","architectural_style":"Queen Anne","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still a residence; the second floor was converted to an apartment in the 1930s, and the current function is listed as multiple dwelling, with a family member living there part-time.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:51.326951-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/81/7195/47719581/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/90001372.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001372/3fc40e7c01-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001372/3fc40e7c01-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Warren LeMay from Cincinnati, OH, United States","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Robert_Lafayette_Cooper_House,_Murphy,_NC_(39732385113).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:Robert_Lafayette_Cooper_House,_Murphy,_NC_(39732385113).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719581","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Lafayette_Cooper_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17508622"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/cherokee-county/cooper-robert-lafayette-house-90001372/"}