{"nrhp_refnum":"95000639","name":"Lone Beech","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"206 Hillcrest Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Marion","county":"McDowell County","state":"NC","lat":35.68544549300003,"lon":-82.01278270499995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1995-06-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A grand two-story frame Classical Revival house on a hilltop northwest of downtown Marion, McDowell County, North Carolina, dating to about 1912 as a remodeling and enlargement of an earlier house on the site. It was built for attorney Daniel Edward Hudgins.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is one of the most impressive and best preserved houses erected in Marion, with a Tuscan portico, wrap-around porch, and intact interior woodwork. It is described as the finest domestic example of the Classical Revival style in Marion and as a key building in the architectural history of the town and county.","narrative":"Built in Marion around 1912 as a remodeling and enlargement of an earlier house, this two-story frame house on a hilltop northwest of downtown has a two-story pedimented portico supported by six fluted Tuscan columns, and a one-story wrap-around porch. It was built for Daniel Edward Hudgins (1869-1929), a lawyer who came to Marion in 1892 and was active in banking, civic affairs, and business. The house has four brick chimneys, a hipped roof of patterned tin shingles, and a symmetrical facade with a center-hall plan. Its interior woodwork is consistently detailed and largely intact. The property is regarded as the finest domestic example of Classical Revival design in Marion, and it stands out for its scale, refinement, and preservation. The house was left largely unoccupied for about nine years before restoration in 1993, when it was converted for use as a restaurant. It lies within the Marion town landscape, which was rebuilt in brick and frame after a major fire in 1894.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1912-ca. 1915","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Classical Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Restored in 1993 and in use as a restaurant, Josephine's Cafe, after about nine years unoccupied.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.573108-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/23/7212/47721223/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/95000639.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95000639/fedc45073a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95000639/fedc45073a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"rossograph","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lone_Beach-Marion.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">rossograph</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:Lone_Beach-Marion.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721223","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_Beech","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19864350"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/mcdowell-county/lone-beech-95000639/"}