{"nrhp_refnum":"96001527","name":"Davis Family House","other_names":["Davis--Forbes House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"N side of NC 1355, .8 mi. NW of Ferguson Br. over the Pigeon River","address_restricted":false,"city":"Crabtree","county":"Haywood County","state":"NC","lat":35.62274851900003,"lon":-82.97362676299997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1996-12-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story-with-loft weatherboarded frame house with a two-room plan, set in a hillside clearing above the Pigeon River near Crabtree in Haywood County, North Carolina. It was built about 1880 and enlarged with a shed kitchen and dining room addition in 1925-1926.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is an intact example of a once-common rural mountain house type that was rapidly disappearing in Haywood County. It is said to preserve the two-room plan and form of earlier log dwellings, and its interior finish is largely original. It is regarded as a rare survivor of this transitional house form.","narrative":"Built about 1880 on a hillside clearing above the Pigeon River in upper Haywood County, this one-story-with-loft frame house has a two-room plan, weatherboard walls and original Italianate-style door and window surrounds. Joseph S. Davis and his wife Laura Rhea Davis raised nine children here, and their son Joseph Yoder Davis, a farmer and Baptist minister, lived in the house until his death in 1949. In 1925-1926 a shed addition across the rear replaced a detached log kitchen and provided an indoor kitchen and dining room. The interior of the original block is largely intact, including the bedroom's pine floor, flush-sheathed walls and molded surrounds. The house is regarded as a rare survivor of a rural house type that was common among middling farm families in the late nineteenth century and transitional between log dwellings and later two-story frame houses. Most of its contemporaries have been lost to abandonment or demolition.","period_of_significance":"Ca. 1880","architect_builder":"Robert F. Arrington (carpenter); Dexter Rabun Rathbone (carpenter), for the 1925-1926 addition","architectural_style":"Italianate-style trim on a vernacular two-room frame house","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"The house was rented from 1955 to 1967 and is undergoing restoration by its current owner, as stated in the document.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:40.967624-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/66/7207/47720766/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/96001527.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96001527/8c1cc5c667-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96001527/8c1cc5c667-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"rossograph","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Davis_Family_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:Davis_Family_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720766","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis_Family_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19461280"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/haywood-county/davis-family-house-96001527/"}