{"nrhp_refnum":"97000238","name":"Johnston, John, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1325 NC 62, N.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Yanceyville","county":"Caswell County","state":"NC","lat":36.435803332000035,"lon":-79.28267444599999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1997-03-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-and-one-half story, side-gabled hall-and-parlor house in the Yanceyville area of Caswell County, North Carolina, moved about 150 yards southwest around 1921 to its present site on the west side of the Yanceyville-to-Milton Road. It is a rural house type that the document says has almost disappeared from the North Carolina landscape.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a rare and excellent example of an early nineteenth-century plantation-era house, with a hall-and-parlor plan and local interpretations of Federal architectural details. It states that the 1990 academic restoration recovered the house's antebellum appearance and retained a high degree of integrity in its form, style and original structural components.","narrative":"Built in the early nineteenth century as a one-and-one-half story, side-gabled hall-and-parlor house, the John Johnston House stands in rural Caswell County in the Northern Piedmont. Its three-bay, two-bay-deep frame form rests on a coursed fieldstone foundation, with beaded lapboard siding, nine-over-nine sashes and end chimneys of coursed fieldstone. The house was moved about 150 yards southwest around 1921 from its original site, which is now occupied by a Craftsman bungalow. It is regarded as an excellent example of its type, with Federal-inspired detailing including a tripartite hall mantelpiece with Tuscan colonettes and a Federal parlor fire surround. Its interior retains original five-inch pine floors, batten doors and a pine balustrade on the enclosed corner stair. In 1990 the house was restored to its antebellum appearance after early twentieth-century porches and stucco were removed, and a rear ell was added. The restoration is credited with preserving a rare early house type tied to the county's tobacco-based plantation economy.","period_of_significance":"second quarter of the nineteenth century","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Rehabilitated and restored in 1990 with a rear ell added for modern residential use","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.494673-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/54/7194/47719454/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/97000238.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97000238/10fef1708a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97000238/10fef1708a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"TKeller","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Johnston_House_1825.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">TKeller</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Johnston_House_1825.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719454","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Johnston_House_(Yanceyville,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18152761"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/caswell-county/johnston-john-house-97000238/"}