{"nrhp_refnum":"99000811","name":"Black, J.C., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"106 McNeill St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Carthage","county":"Moore County","state":"NC","lat":35.34572079700007,"lon":-79.41499833899996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1999-07-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Commerce","Politics/Government"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large two-story frame Queen Anne style house at 106 McNeill Street in Carthage, Moore County, North Carolina, built about 1893 for lawyer and politician J. C. Black. A well house also survives on the lot.","why_significant":"The house is considered one of the finest late nineteenth-century dwellings in Carthage and shows typical Queen Anne traits such as irregular massing, a corner tower, mixed siding textures and ornate porch woodwork. It is also tied to Julius Cassius Black, a county attorney, state senator, mayor and bank president who was locally significant in politics/government and commerce.","narrative":"Built around 1893 at the corner of McNeill and Barrett streets in Carthage, this two-story frame house was the home of J. C. Black, a lawyer who served as county attorney, state senator, mayor and president of the Bank of Carthage. He also led the effort to build the Carthage Railroad. The house follows the Queen Anne style, with irregular massing, a polygonal corner tower, a tower-like round bay, novelty siding on the first floor and fish-scale shingles above, and a wraparound porch with turned and sawnwork details. Inside, the vestibule and stair hall are sheathed in diagonally set beaded boards. A 1897 railroad promotional newspaper featured the house as an example of Carthage's fine residential architecture. Black died in 1902, and his family kept the house for nearly a century. A polygonal well house also survives. The property is listed for its architecture and for its link to Black's political and commercial career. Current owners are rehabilitating it as a residence.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1893-1902","architect_builder":"Cameron Bros. builder","architectural_style":"Queen Anne","criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"Described as having suffered from lack of maintenance in recent years but undergoing sensitive rehabilitation/restoration by owner-occupants for continued residential use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:54.207184-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/42/7214/47721442/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/99000811.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000811/b3422fb097-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000811/b3422fb097-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:J._C._BLACK_HOUSE;_CARTHAGE,_MOORE_COUNTY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerrye &amp;amp; Roy Klotz, MD</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:J._C._BLACK_HOUSE;_CARTHAGE,_MOORE_COUNTY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721442","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.C._Black_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19460547"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/moore-county/black-j-c-house-99000811/"}