{"nrhp_refnum":"95001066","name":"McCracken, Dr. Cireo McAfee, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1384 Charlotte Hwy.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fairview","county":"Buncombe County","state":"NC","lat":35.52457112600007,"lon":-82.40933651799998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1995-09-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Health/Medicine"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame Foursquare-style house on the north side of the Charlotte Highway (US 74) in Fairview, Buncombe County, North Carolina, with a frame office and garage at the rear of the lot. It was built in 1924 for Dr. Cicero McAfee McCracken.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is important to the history of Fairview and Buncombe County as the home and office of a long-serving country doctor who practiced in the community for about four and a half decades. It states the house is the major surviving building associated with his career and was a center of his leadership in church, school board, county health board and profession.","narrative":"Built in 1924 on a residual lot of 2.96 acres along the Charlotte Highway in Fairview, this two-story frame house follows the American Foursquare form, with a center-hall, double-pile plan, a hip-roofed front dormer, and deep porches across the front and west side. Dr. Cicero McAfee McCracken, a physician from Haywood County, practiced in Fairview from 1896 until his death in December 1942. He served on the Fairview School Board from 1913 to 1929 and on the Buncombe County Board of Health from 1918 to 1924. The house, together with a frame office and garage built by four local builders, served as his home and workplace from its construction until his death. The interior remains largely as built, with oak floors, plaster walls and original two-panel doors. The house is significant mainly for its association with his long medical career and his civic and church leadership in the community.","period_of_significance":"1924-1942","architect_builder":"Bob Oates (builder); Andy Wright (builder); George Fite (builder); Jay Hill (builder)","architectural_style":"Foursquare","criteria":["B"],"status_note":"Well preserved; the house is occupied by the owner's family and the former office is used as a rental dwelling, per the document's description of later use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.156136-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/69/7192/47719269/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/95001066.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95001066/2975474e72-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95001066/2975474e72-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"rossograph","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dr._Cireo_McAfee_McCracken_House.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:Dr._Cireo_McAfee_McCracken_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719269","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Cireo_McAfee_McCracken_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18154240"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/buncombe-county/mccracken-dr-cireo-mcafee-house-95001066/"}