{"nrhp_refnum":"99001683","name":"Black, George, House and Brickyard","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"111 Dellabrook Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Winston-Salem","county":"Forsyth County","state":"NC","lat":36.11340597000003,"lon":-80.20956178799997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-01-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Historic - Non-Aboriginal"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A ca. 1900 one-story frame \"triple-A\" house and the remains of a handmade-brick brickyard at 111 Dellabrook Road in eastern Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina. The brickyard was operated by George H. Black from the 1940s.","why_significant":"George H. Black lived and worked here from 1934 until his death in 1980, making bricks by hand long after machines became standard. The property is argued to be significant for its link to the traditional hand-molded brick industry and to Black, a nationally recognized brickmaker. The surviving kiln and mud mill remains are also considered likely to yield information about brickmaking technology.","narrative":"On Dellabrook Road in eastern Winston-Salem stands a modest one-story frame house, built about 1900 in the common \"triple-A\" form, with a false center gable decorated with fishscale shingles. Behind it, in a wooded area, lie the remains of a brickyard, including a mud mill site, scattered brick piles and the outline of a kiln. George H. Black, son of a former slave, bought the property in 1934 and lived here until his death in 1980 at age 101. He kept molding and firing bricks by hand while other brickmakers switched to machines, and his bricks were used in Winston-Salem's finer buildings and in restoration work at Colonial Williamsburg and Old Salem. The property was listed for its association with the traditional handmade brick industry and with Black himself, and for the archaeological information the kiln and mill remains could provide. The house still serves as a residence, and the brickyard site is largely intact despite road grading to the south.","period_of_significance":"1934-1980","architect_builder":"Black, George H. (brickyard)","architectural_style":"OTHER: Triple-A","criteria":["A","B","D"],"status_note":"The house remains in Black family ownership and is used year-round as a rental residence. The brickyard remains are overgrown and partly below ground, but the site's integrity is described as high despite road grading.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:54.395946-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/84/7202/47720284/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/99001683.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99001683/17e2dc9b62-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99001683/17e2dc9b62-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Dmw002","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_Black_House_and_Brickyard.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Dmw002</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:George_Black_House_and_Brickyard.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720284","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Black_House_and_Brickyard","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19460545"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/forsyth-county/black-george-house-and-brickyard-99001683/"}