{"nrhp_refnum":"91000078","name":"McElroy, Samuel J., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"10915 Beatties Ford Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Huntersville","county":"Mecklenburg County","state":"NC","lat":35.36985353700004,"lon":-80.90237304199997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-02-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, T-shaped vernacular Victorian farmhouse at 10915 Beatties Ford Road near Huntersville, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, built in the 1880s for farmer Samuel J. McElroy, with a tack house and other outbuildings on a 1.88-acre parcel.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is an outstanding example of the T-shaped, two-story vernacular Victorian farmhouses built in rural Mecklenburg County after the Civil War. It has one of the more ornate post-war front porches in the county and a largely intact interior. Its attached smokehouse is unique in the county, and its asymmetrical form reflects a shift away from the traditional I-house.","narrative":"Built in the 1880s for farmer Samuel J. McElroy, this two-story, T-shaped farmhouse on Beatties Ford Road north of Hopewell Presbyterian Church is one of the finest surviving examples of its type in Mecklenburg County. Its asymmetrical form departs from the balanced I-houses that dominated the 19th-century countryside. The front porch retains slender chamfered posts, sawn brackets and a sawnwork balustrade, and a bay window marks the gable-front section. Inside, a central hall holds an open-string stair with turned balusters, original mantels with curvilinear friezes, board-and-batten ceilings and moulded door surrounds. At the rear, a kitchen wing joins an original smokehouse across a narrow breezeway, an arrangement unique in the county. A ca. 1885 tack house is the only surviving free-standing farm outbuilding. McElroy, a Confederate veteran wounded at Gettysburg, farmed here with his family, and the house passed down through his descendants into the later twentieth century.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1885","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Vernacular Victorian","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Listed in the form's current functions as a single dwelling and as vacant/not in use; the text also describes owners and a remodelled kitchen and family room.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:49.756881-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/41/7182/47718241/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/91000078.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91000078/2f9f8c3ba3-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91000078/2f9f8c3ba3-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Kittycolada911","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Front_of_house_2.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Kittycolada911</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:Front_of_house_2.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718241","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_J._McElroy_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19987035"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/mecklenburg-county/mcelroy-samuel-j-house-91000078/"}