{"nrhp_refnum":"93000542","name":"Shaw House","other_names":["Old Shaw Homestead"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"780 SW. Broad St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Southern Pines","county":"Moore County","state":"NC","lat":35.168289912000034,"lon":-79.40143625699994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1993-06-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-and-one-half story frame farmhouse at 780 Southwest Broad Street in Southern Pines, Moore County, North Carolina, built in the early nineteenth century and enlarged later, set on a 1.2-acre lot with two relocated log buildings.","why_significant":"It is thought to be one of the oldest surviving houses in Moore County and an example of vernacular frame dwellings built by Highland Scots settlers. It has unusually decorative carved cypress mantels, apparently by the same unknown craftsman who made mantels in two other county houses. It is also tied to the Shaw family, who helped settle the county and whose land became the town of Southern Pines.","narrative":"Built in the early nineteenth century at the crossing of the Morganton Road and the Pee Dee Trail, this one-and-one-half story frame farmhouse began as a three-room main block and grew through an enclosed front porch with two \"strangers' rooms\" and a later rear ell. A chimney dated February 8, 1842, may mark the enlargement. Inside, the main block keeps its Federal-style pine board walls and a pair of carved cypress mantels attributed to an unknown itinerant craftsman whose work also appears in two other Moore County houses. Charles Cornelius Shaw, a farmer and lumber and naval stores proprietor, assembled large landholdings around the house. His son Squire Shaw later became the first mayor of Southern Pines, which was laid out on the family's land. The Shaw family kept the house until 1946, when volunteers rescued it from demolition. The lot now also holds two relocated log buildings, the Garner House and the Britt-Sanders Cabin, shown as exhibits.","period_of_significance":"early nineteenth century-1943","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"OTHER/vernacular Moore County farmhouse, with Federal and Greek Revival details","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Now used as a museum; saved from demolition in 1946 by volunteers and operated by the Moore County Historical Association. Roof shingles were replaced in 1991.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:49.788102-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/48/7214/47721448/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/93000542.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000542/86ac68ee7e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000542/86ac68ee7e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Cohee","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shaw_House_2022-06-15.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Cohee</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shaw_House_2022-06-15.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721448","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaw_House_(Southern_Pines,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25203156"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/moore-county/shaw-house-93000542/"}