{"nrhp_refnum":"90002186","name":"Hayes-Byrum Store and House","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"NC 160 S of jct. with Shopton Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Charlotte","county":"Mecklenburg County","state":"NC","lat":35.17015869000005,"lon":-80.96300943199998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-01-31","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story brick general store built about 1890 and a two-story frame Queen Anne style house built about 1900, on Steele Creek Road in the crossroads community of Shopton, rural Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. The store remains in operation and the house is occupied by the owner's family.","why_significant":"The store is described as the oldest surviving commercial building in rural Mecklenburg County and retains many original exterior and interior elements. The house is regarded as a relatively intact example of the Queen Anne style in rural Mecklenburg County, with original woodwork and a classical mantel and porch columns. Together they are presented as key elements of the Shopton crossroads community.","narrative":"Built about 1890 at the Shopton crossroads on Steele Creek Road in rural Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, the Hayes-Byrum Store is a one-story brick building with load-bearing walls in common bond, and it is regarded as the county's oldest surviving rural commercial building. Joseph Rufus Hayes built it to serve the farming families of the Steele Creek area, and the Shopton Post Office was later housed in it. The store keeps original features including bracketed wooden shelves with pendants inside. Next to it stands a house built about 1900 in the Queen Anne style, a two-story frame dwelling with a wraparound veranda, a cutaway bay, and original Tuscan porch columns. Its parlor mantel with free-standing colonettes is the house's only classical mantel. The store and house are listed for their architecture, the store as a rare surviving country general store and the house as one of the county's few relatively intact Queen Anne examples.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1890-1900","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Queen Anne; vernacular commercial","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"The store remains in operation selling foodstuffs and general merchandise; the house is occupied by the owner.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.443012-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/35/7182/47718235/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/90002186.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90002186/da4c5c10a6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90002186/da4c5c10a6-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Bagatar","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hayes-Byrum_Store.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Bagatar</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hayes-Byrum_Store.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718235","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayes-Byrum_Store_and_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19462245"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/mecklenburg-county/hayes-byrum-store-and-house-90002186/"}