{"nrhp_refnum":"94001052","name":"Coxe, Mary Mills, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1210 Greenville Hwy.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hendersonville","county":"Henderson County","state":"NC","lat":35.29741082600003,"lon":-82.45113538299995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1994-08-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-one-half-story Colonial Revival frame house with pebbledash stucco on a raised granite basement, located on a 1.8-acre tract south of Hendersonville in Henderson County, North Carolina. It was built ca. 1911 by Mary Mills Coxe, widow of Colonel Franklin Coxe.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is one of the few remaining pebbledash houses in Henderson County, with about ten such houses believed to survive there. It is described as a rare, largely unchanged example of the type, popularized in the area by architect Richard Sharp Smith, and it is judged to retain high integrity from its period.","narrative":"Built ca. 1911 for Mary Mills Coxe, widow of Asheville developer Colonel Franklin Coxe, this two-and-one-half-story Colonial Revival house sits on a raised granite basement and is finished in pebbledash stucco, a rough-textured cement coating. It has three bays, a side-gabled roof with pressed metal shingles, a porte cochere, and a rear sleeping porch. The interior keeps its center hall plan, pocket doors, wainscoting, mantels, hardwood floors and plaster walls on both levels. Pebbledash was popularized in the region by Richard Sharp Smith, who practiced in western North Carolina from 1896, and the house is believed to be one of only about ten surviving pebbledash houses in Henderson County. Its listing rests on its architectural value as a rare, well-preserved example of that type. Its later history includes ownership by the Wharton family from 1920 to 1963. A 1950s carriage house and outbuildings at the rear are not counted in the significance.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1911","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Renovated in 1993 and 1994 by the current owners for use as offices and a showcase for a construction and development firm; the document states the house is in excellent condition.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.706301-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/99/7207/47720799/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/94001052.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94001052/ba332585aa-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94001052/ba332585aa-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Indigrrl","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mary_Mills_Coxe_house.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Indigrrl</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mary_Mills_Coxe_house.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720799","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Mills_Coxe_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19461181"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/henderson-county/coxe-mary-mills-house-94001052/"}