{"nrhp_refnum":"91001375","name":"Johnson, J. Beale, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"6321 Johnson Pond Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fuquay-Varina","county":"Wake County","state":"NC","lat":35.61125868700006,"lon":-78.75543846784052,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-09-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story Neoclassical Revival frame house with a brick foundation, built circa 1906 on the east side of Johnson Pond Road near Fuquay-Varina in southern Wake County, North Carolina. It sits on a hill facing a large pond and has a frame garage and cook's house behind it.","why_significant":"The house is presented as the most impressive early twentieth-century house in southern Wake County, with a two-story Doric portico and interior classical detailing. It is associated with J. Beale Johnson, a lumber, commerce and community figure of the early 1900s. The nomination also argues it is the only known domestic dwelling in Wake County designed by Raleigh architect Charles Pearson, and that it is rare in rural Wake County for its scale and integrity.","narrative":"Built circa 1906 near Fuquay-Varina, this two-story frame house on a hill above a large pond was designed by Raleigh architect Charles Pearson for lumber entrepreneur J. Beale Johnson. Its central two-story portico with paired Doric columns, a porte cochere, and a hipped roof with a widow's walk give it a formal presence unusual for rural Wake County. Inside, a T-shaped hall holds an open staircase with a North Carolina walnut handrail, and the parlors have pocket doors and marble fireplace openings. Johnson, who held a directorship at the Commercial National Bank in Raleigh, commissioned the house in 1901 and completed it in 1906 without debt. The nomination treats it as a rare rural example of the Neoclassical Revival style, and as the only domestic work by Pearson in the county. Its integrity is cited as a reason it reflects the style at its height in North Carolina.","period_of_significance":"CIRCA 1906","architect_builder":"Charles Pearson (architect)","architectural_style":"Neoclassical Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Restored between 1965 and 1970 after years of neglect; the document describes the house as intact in its interior and exterior integrity.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.379675-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/79/7224/47722479/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/91001375.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91001375/6ff16f521e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91001375/6ff16f521e-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Fvman","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fuquay-Varina-J-Beale-Johnson-House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Fvman</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fuquay-Varina-J-Beale-Johnson-House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722479","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Beale_Johnson_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20065310"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wake-county/johnson-j-beale-house-91001375/"}