{"nrhp_refnum":"94000530","name":"Foard-Tatum House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"At end of NC 1101","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cooleemee","county":"Davie County","state":"NC","lat":35.79318616200004,"lon":-80.52238443699997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1994-05-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A ca. 1845 transitional Federal/Greek Revival two-story farmhouse on a knoll above a branch near the South Yadkin River in rural Davie County, North Carolina, at the end of Tatum Road. It is the centerpiece of a former antebellum plantation within the Foard family landholdings.","why_significant":"The house is significant under Criterion C as a distinctive example of transitional Federal/Greek Revival architecture. Its interior features are taken from plates in Asher Benjamin's pattern book The Practical House Carpenter (1830), and it is described as the only known surviving intact collection of Asher Benjamin interior features in the county. The site also includes mid-nineteenth-century log outbuildings that are rare, reasonably intact examples.","narrative":"Set on a knoll above a branch near its confluence with the South Yadkin River, this two-story, three-bay farmhouse was built around 1845 and stands at the end of a half-mile tree-shaded lane in the rolling hills of Davie County. It was the centerpiece of a plantation within the large antebellum landholdings of the Foard family, which occupied both sides of the river. Its heavy timber frame is covered in weatherboard and carries transitional Federal and Greek Revival details, including boxed cornices, gable-end chimneys and fluted window surrounds. The interior is the main reason for its listing: nearly all of the main block's features, from the front door and window surrounds to the mantels, base moldings and cornices, follow plates in Asher Benjamin's 1830 pattern book The Practical House Carpenter. The house has been vacant since 1964. A rear ell was added in the 1860s or 1870s, and the site also retains log outbuildings from the mid-nineteenth century, which are rare survivals.","period_of_significance":"CA. 1845","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Transitional Federal/Greek Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Vacant since 1964; structurally sound despite a hole in the roof, a fallen west chimney and a collapsed replacement porch; damaged areas stabilized in preparation for complete restoration.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:13:51.373-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/75/7199/47719975/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/94000530.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719975","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foard-Tatum_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18355703"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/davie-county/foard-tatum-house-94000530/"}