{"nrhp_refnum":"98001144","name":"Snipes-Fox House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"306 S. Dogwood Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Siler City","county":"Chatham County","state":"NC","lat":35.71908416700006,"lon":-79.46633209999999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1998-09-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, three-bay frame house on South Dogwood Avenue in Siler City, Chatham County, North Carolina, built circa 1900 by Alvis Snipes in the town's first residential neighborhood.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is one of Siler City's earliest and most intact turn-of-the-century frame dwellings, with near-original exterior and interior woodwork. It is also associated with the Fox family, descendants of prominent early merchant Daniel G. Fox, who owned it for nearly half a century.","narrative":"Built circa 1900 by Alvis Snipes on a knoll in Siler City's first residential neighborhood, the two-story frame house is a three-gabled, three-bay dwelling with a wrap-around porch whose hipped roof follows obtuse angles, a feature the nomination links to the Queen Anne style. Its exterior is restrained, with a slight Gothic Revival influence in steep gables and louvered vents and a slight Greek Revival influence in its returned cornice. The interior is more ornate, with beadboard walls, seven original mantelpieces with sawn friezes, and a center-hall plan. Snipes bought the land from Samuel Siler in 1897. In 1908 the house passed to merchant Millard M. Fox, and the Fox family and their descendants lived there for nearly fifty years. The property is significant as a locally important, intact example of domestic design from the period. A rear smokehouse contemporary with the house is also noted as rare in the town.","period_of_significance":"C. 1900","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Occupied by the present owners, who enclosed a porch in 1983 and renovated interior rooms.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.267212-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/45/7195/47719545/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/98001144.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719545","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snipes%E2%80%93Fox_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18158160"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/chatham-county/snipes-fox-house-98001144/"}