{"nrhp_refnum":"93001193","name":"Braxton, Hiram, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"3440 Newlin Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Snow Camp","county":"Alamance County","state":"NC","lat":35.86855907800003,"lon":-79.31803396899994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1993-11-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story V-notched log house with an 1884 frame side addition, located on the north side of Newlin Road in the southeast corner of Alamance County, Snow Camp, North Carolina. The log portion dates to about 1865.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a rare, relatively intact example of a log house retaining evidence of its original three-room (Quaker or Continental) plan, which is a minor house type in Alamance County. It also illustrates the local pattern of a log house expanded with a frame addition, and it is associated with the Braxton family, who owned the land from 1761 to the present.","narrative":"Located on Newlin Road in the southeast corner of Alamance County, North Carolina, the Hiram Braxton House combines a log house built about 1865 with a frame addition completed in 1884, the date recorded on a brick in the gable-end chimney. The one-story V-notched log pen retains six-over-six sash windows in hand-planed poplar casings, whitewashed walls, and a standing seam metal roof. Evidence in the attic shows a three-room Quaker or Continental plan, a house type concentrated near the Snow Camp community, which was settled largely by Quakers from Pennsylvania. Partitions were removed about 1980 to store tobacco, but the ghost marks remain. The house is significant as a rare, relatively intact example of this plan in the county. It is also associated with the Braxton family, who held the land from 1761 onward and whose members farmed the property for generations. Hiram Braxton, a Confederate veteran, built the house after returning from the Civil War.","period_of_significance":"C. 1865; 1884","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Used for miscellaneous household storage; a non-contributing cinder block house stands in the yard.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.612544-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/22/7172/47717222/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/93001193.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717222","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiram_Braxton_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17513075"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/alamance-county/braxton-hiram-house-93001193/"}