{"nrhp_refnum":"93001194","name":"Cook, William, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NC 2131 W side at jct. with NC 2132","address_restricted":false,"city":"Mebane","county":"Alamance County","state":"NC","lat":36.03314049000005,"lon":-79.28402116199999,"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 farmhouse compound near Mebane in Alamance County, North Carolina, made up of a c. 1840 one-room log house and a c. 1903 two-story frame I-house joined by porches, with four early outbuildings.","why_significant":"The property is significant under Criterion C as an example of Alamance County's single-pen log house with habitable loft. Pairing a log house with a frame I-house at a right angle, linked by joined porches, is described as an unusual and notable pattern of log building expansion.","narrative":"Near Mebane in Alamance County, this farm centers on two houses set at a right angle and joined by hip-roofed porches. The older is a one-room log house of about 1840 with a habitable loft reached by an enclosed corner stair. Around 1903 William Cook, a farmer and carpenter, added a two-story, three-bay frame I-house beside it. Family tradition holds that it served as sleeping quarters for his twelve children, while he and his wife used the log house for cooking, dining and sleeping. Clapboards, corner boards and a new brick chimney on the original stone base unified the two buildings. Four early outbuildings survive: a log barn, a log storage shed, a log wood shed and a frame corncrib. A small brick rear addition was built in the early 1980s. The property was listed as a good local example of single-pen log construction, and for the unusual expansion of a log house with a frame I-house. It remains a working farm with a long history of Cook family ownership.","period_of_significance":"c. 1840; c. 1903","architect_builder":"Cook, William, builder","architectural_style":"Other: log, single pen","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Described as a well-maintained working farm; the log house serves as the family kitchen and dining room and the I-house holds the sitting room and bedrooms.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:49.03437-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/18/7172/47717218/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/93001194.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717218","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cook_House_(Mebane,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17515317"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/alamance-county/cook-william-house-93001194/"}