{"nrhp_refnum":"93001140","name":"Hoyle House","other_names":["Hieyl,Pieter,Homeplace"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NC 275 S side, 1400 ft. SW of S. Fork of Catawba R.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Dallas","county":"Gaston County","state":"NC","lat":35.326890879000075,"lon":-81.13776943699997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1993-10-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story weatherboarded German-American house on a hill overlooking the South Fork of the Catawba River near Dallas, Gaston County, North Carolina, with a late eighteenth-century main block, a ca. 1810 remodelling and a later rear ell. A brick well house and a frame smoke house stand nearby.","why_significant":"The house shows distinctive German-American heavy timber and log-infill construction, later refined with Georgian and Federal finishes around 1810. It was the homeplace of Andrew Hoyle, a wealthy landowner, merchant and first postmaster in present Gaston County, and it reflects the early Hoyle family settlement of the area.","narrative":"Overlooking the South Fork of the Catawba River in Gaston County, this two-story weatherboarded house preserves rare German-American building methods. The main block, probably late eighteenth century though family tradition suggests earlier, has heavy timber framing with pegged horizontal log infill, down braces at the corners, an eave kick and a triangular interior chimney. Around 1810 Andrew Hoyle updated it with beaded siding, larger windows, molded trim, a cornice with punched dentils, a front porch and paneled walnut interiors with Federal mantels. A log rear ell was added in the mid-nineteenth century and later raised to two stories. Hoyle, known as Rich Andrew, became the wealthiest man in the county, operated stores, held mining and forge interests and served as the first postmaster in the area, with the Hoylesville Post Office nearby. The house is now vacant. A family foundation organized in 1991 acquired it with almost nine acres, intending restoration.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Andrew Hoyle (credited with the ca. 1810 remodelling)","architectural_style":"Georgian; Federal","criteria":[],"status_note":"Current function listed as vacant/not in use; a family foundation bought the house and about 8.95 acres in 1991 and planned a careful restoration.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:51.28953-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/89/7203/47720389/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/93001140.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93001140/0c374beb9a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93001140/0c374beb9a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Upstateherd","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hoyle_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Upstateherd</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:Hoyle_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720389","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyle_Historic_Homestead","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7174759"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/gaston-county/hoyle-house-93001140/"}