{"nrhp_refnum":"97000570","name":"Magnolia Grove (Boundary Increase)","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Jct of NC 1309 and NC 1313","address_restricted":false,"city":"Iron Station","county":"Lincoln County","state":"NC","lat":35.41859187800006,"lon":-81.17456203823872,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1997-06-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, five-bay brick Federal style plantation house with its surrounding 12.92-acre setting in southern Lincoln County, near Iron Station, North Carolina. The house was erected in 1824 for David and Elizabeth Arendt Smith.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that the house is a handsome example of Federal style plantation architecture, and that the boundary expansion is needed because the original 1972 listing included three undefined acres. The enlarged 12.92-acre tract is the residual acreage of the original 395-acre plantation and forms an appropriate rural setting for the house. The property is also associated with a rare bigleaf magnolia grove that gave the plantation its name, and with a possible eighteenth-century tavern site.","narrative":"Magnolia Grove is a two-story, five-bay brick plantation house in southern Lincoln County, North Carolina, built in 1824 for David and Elizabeth Arendt Smith. It is a Federal style house that dominates its clearing, and it received a compatible frame rear addition during its restoration in the early 1970s. The house sits on a 12.92-acre tract that is the remaining land of the original 395-acre plantation, most of it now second-growth forest. Southwest of the house stands a stand of young bigleaf magnolia trees, a rare deciduous species that gave the plantation its name. Mature trees there were destroyed by Hurricane Hugo in 1989, and new trees have grown from their roots. The boundary expansion was submitted to define a setting that the earlier listing had left undescribed. Archaeological features on the tract, including a probable tavern site and stone springhouse, are linked by tradition to Henry Dellinger's tavern of the 1770s and 1780s.","period_of_significance":"1824","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Restored in the early 1970s; three small non-contributing outbuildings added since 1971.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.53684-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/74/7210/47721074/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/97000570.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721074","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnolia_Grove_(Iron_Station,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19986900"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/lincoln-county/magnolia-grove-boundary-increase-97000570/"}