{"nrhp_refnum":"93000544","name":"Edenwood","other_names":["Smith-Williams House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"7620 Old Stage Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Garner","county":"Wake County","state":"NC","lat":35.674124037500036,"lon":-78.66032888805688,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1993-07-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Edenwood (also called the Smith-Williams House) is a two-story frame plantation house with a detached outbuilding and about ten acres of grounds on Old Stage Road in Garner, Wake County, North Carolina. An early nineteenth-century house was enlarged in the mid-nineteenth century and again around 1935.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that this well-finished Greek Revival I-house is one of a small number of similar antebellum houses surviving in rural Wake County, and qualifies under Criterion C for architecture. The mid-1930s Colonial Revival porch and the enlargement of the house add to its architectural significance. The property is also tied to Sihon Smith, a Methodist circuit rider, and the Williams family.","narrative":"Edenwood is a frame plantation house on Old Stage Road in Garner, Wake County, North Carolina, set on about ten acres that remain of a plantation once measuring several hundred acres. Its core is an early nineteenth-century dwelling associated with Sihon Smith, a Methodist preacher who bought the land in 1818. In the mid-nineteenth century, his daughter Sarah Jane and her husband Simeon Williams added a two-story Greek Revival I-house at the front. Around 1935 the older wing was overbuilt, a north wing and rear gallery were added, and a Colonial Revival porch with a pedimented center bay was built. The house is considered architecturally significant as one of few surviving antebellum houses of its kind in rural Wake County. Family tradition says it served as a stage stop on the old road between Charleston and Petersburg. A late nineteenth-century outbuilding, probably a smokehouse, and the surrounding grounds also contribute to the property.","period_of_significance":"mid-nineteenth century, ca. 1935","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Greek Revival; Colonial Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Current function is listed as vacant/not in use; the pastures are unused but kept mowed.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:50.725994-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/45/7185/47718545/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/93000544.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718545","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edenwood","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20065294"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wake-county/edenwood-93000544/"}