{"nrhp_refnum":"93000737","name":"Knox-Johnstone House","other_names":["Ben Allen Knox House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"100 Beaumont Farm Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cleveland","county":"Rowan County","state":"NC","lat":35.733846784000036,"lon":-80.68253396399996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1993-08-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, weatherboarded frame house with Italianate-style finish, built as the seat of a 500-plus acre farm on the northwest edge of Cleveland, Rowan County, North Carolina, with a large bell-cast gambrel roof barn from the 1930s behind it.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is architecturally significant as a largely intact Italianate house, one of few stylish Victorian-era houses in rural Rowan County after Reconstruction. Its interior also retains Greek Revival woodwork reused from the earlier family house. The 1930s barn is significant as one of a small number of large frame dairy-era barns in the county.","narrative":"Erected about 1880 as the seat of a farm on the northwest edge of the village of Cleveland, this two-story weatherboarded frame house has a center-hall plan, a nearly full-facade porch, and Italianate woodwork including bargeboards with bosses and hooded window surrounds. Benjamin Allen Knox built it to replace an earlier family house after the growing village began to pass the farm's outbuildings. Its interior combines later nineteenth-century finish with mantels, doors and surrounds reused from the earlier Greek Revival house, which the nomination treats as a notable survival. Knox was born in 1839 on the family plantation, served with a North Carolina infantry company in the Civil War, and died here in 1907. The house is regarded as one of the few stylish Victorian houses in rural Rowan County from that period. A large frame barn was erected behind it about 1935, which the nomination considers a representative example of the county's shift to larger dairy operations in the mid-twentieth century.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1880-ca. 1935","architect_builder":"Benjamin Allen Knox (builder)","architectural_style":"Late Victorian/Italianate","criteria":["C"],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:40.99551-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/64/7220/47722064/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/93000737.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722064","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knox-Johnstone_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19864680"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/rowan-county/knox-johnstone-house-93000737/"}