{"nrhp_refnum":"92000701","name":"Bernhardt House","other_names":["Bernhardt,Paul Mathias,House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"305 E. Innes St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Salisbury","county":"Rowan County","state":"NC","lat":35.665238944000066,"lon":-80.46768388399994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1992-06-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame house on East Innes Street in Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina, built in 1882 for Paul Mathias and Mary Jane Leak Bernhardt and remodeled by about 1900 in the late-Victorian Italianate manner.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is significant for its architecture as a largely intact late-Victorian dwelling showing two successive phases of the Italianate style. It is also tied to the Bernhardt family's role in Salisbury's commercial and social life, and it is the only surviving house of a Bernhardt family group on East Innes Street.","narrative":"Built in 1882 on East Innes Street in Salisbury, the two-story weatherboarded frame house was raised by Paul Mathias and Mary Jane Leak Bernhardt on a lot she bought that year for $700. It was first built in the Italian Villa style, with arch-headed windows in molded surrounds, hooded openings, and a porch with chamfered posts. Around 1900 the family remodeled it in the late-Victorian Italianate manner, adding bracketed eaves and ornamental sheathed gables. The house remained in the family until 1947 and was converted to four apartments in 1948, with rear additions that kept the original exterior windows. It is regarded as a largely intact example of late-Victorian domestic architecture in Salisbury. Its listing rests on that architecture, and on its link to the Bernhardt family, who were hardware merchants in the city. The house is the only survivor of a group of family houses and a residential neighborhood on East Innes Street.","period_of_significance":"1882; ca. 1900","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italian Villa; Italianate","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Converted to four rental apartments in 1948 after the Bernhardt family sold it; the document describes the interior as essentially intact.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:40.728369-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/30/7221/47722130/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/92000701.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92000701/e1b6ea4cc2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92000701/e1b6ea4cc2-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Ncpappy","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bernhardt_House_-_E_Innes_St_-_Salisbury_NC.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Ncpappy</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:Bernhardt_House_-_E_Innes_St_-_Salisbury_NC.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"75001289","name":"Salisbury Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/salisbury-historic-district-75001289/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722130","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhardt_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19871175"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/rowan-county/bernhardt-house-92000701/"}