{"nrhp_refnum":"95000673","name":"Boxwood Lodge","other_names":["Boxwood"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"132 Becktown Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Mocksville","county":"Davie County","state":"NC","lat":35.81278988250003,"lon":-80.51235181396393,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1995-06-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Boxwood Lodge is a rural estate and the two-story brick Colonial Revival manor house at its center, in southeast Davie County near Mocksville and Salisbury, North Carolina. The estate's core is the residual 51-acre tract of a larger hunting retreat developed by William Rabb Craig from 1911.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is an important and distinguished example of the interwar American country house movement in North Carolina, designed by the New York firm Delano & Aldrich and described as the only known building the firm designed and built in the state. It also highlights the estate's landscape, notably its extensive boxwood plantings, and its ties to the Craig and Woodson families.","narrative":"Boxwood Lodge is a rural estate in southeast Davie County, North Carolina, centered on a two-story brick Colonial Revival manor house completed in 1934. The house was designed by the New York firm Delano & Aldrich for Margaret Eason Cunningham Craig, widow of cotton broker William Rabb Craig, and it is built on an H plan with slate roofs and white-painted brickwork. The estate grew from a 1,500-acre hunting retreat that Craig began assembling in 1911. Its grounds include a 1910s barn, a 1933 log cabin, and extensive boxwood plantings that give the landscape its name. The property is regarded as important for its interwar country house design and for its surviving landscape, which reflects early twentieth-century social life and estate living in the Piedmont. The house is also the only known North Carolina building by its architectural firm, which adds to its importance for the study of regional estate architecture.","period_of_significance":"1913-1941","architect_builder":"Delano & Aldrich (architect)","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"The manor house survives intact and well-preserved; the estate remained in use as a residence after 1963 and the property is now held by the widow of Roy Hoffner.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.427489-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/91/7199/47719991/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/95000673.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719991","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxwood_Lodge","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18359224"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/davie-county/boxwood-lodge-95000673/"}