{"nrhp_refnum":"91001413","name":"Mount Welcome","other_names":["John Franklin Reinhardt House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Jct. of NC 1511 and NC 1412","address_restricted":false,"city":"Mariposa","county":"Lincoln County","state":"NC","lat":35.42821821800004,"lon":-81.05284782380035,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-09-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Mount Welcome is a two-story double-pile weatherboarded frame house on a wooded rise at the junction of the Old Plank Road and the Mariposa Road in Mariposa, Lincoln County, North Carolina. It was erected in 1885 for John Franklin Reinhardt on the site of an earlier house, and it remains the chief surviving part of the family's farm.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is significant for its associations with John Franklin Reinhardt, an iron-forge operator, planter, gold miner and state legislator, and for its place in the architectural history of Lincoln County as an intact house of the post-Civil War period. It states the house's primary significance lies in Reinhardt's political career and its architectural role in the county.","narrative":"Two-story double-pile weatherboarded frame house on a wooded rise at the junction of the Old Plank Road and the Mariposa Road, Mariposa, Lincoln County. John Franklin Reinhardt built it in 1885 on the site of an earlier house, the Bartlett Shipp home place, and reused a one-story Federal/Greek Revival ell and woodwork from that house. Reinhardt was an iron-forge operator, planter, gold miner and state legislator, first elected to the State House in 1894 and later serving in the State Senate. He remained there until his death in 1913. The house is noted for its two-tier center porch with chamfered posts and cutwork brackets, its six-over-six sash windows and its center-hall plan. It is valued for its association with Reinhardt's political career and for its representation of late-nineteenth-century houses in eastern Lincoln County. Farm outbuildings and tenant houses have largely been lost, leaving the house as the principal surviving element of the family's farm.","period_of_significance":"1885-1913","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late 19th Century Vernacular","criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"The house is occupied by descendants of the family, and the nomination notes that the farm outbuildings and tenant houses have largely been demolished, abandoned or collapsed.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.888188-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/90/7210/47721090/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/91001413.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721090","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Franklin_Reinhardt_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19987231"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/lincoln-county/mount-welcome-91001413/"}