{"nrhp_refnum":"99001684","name":"Tilley, Marcus, House","other_names":["Roscoe Tilley House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"7616 Jock Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Bahama","county":"Durham County","state":"NC","lat":36.15568344650006,"lon":-78.84018106444717,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-01-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A frame I-house built about 1880 around an earlier one-and-a-half-story log house, on a 13.63-acre home tract of the Marcus Tilley Farm beside Lake Michie, about two miles southeast of Bahama in northeastern Durham County, North Carolina.","why_significant":"The house is listed under Criterion B as the home of Nannie May Tilley, one of the first generation of female North Carolina historians, who wrote the standard reference on the bright-tobacco industry while living there. It also qualifies under Criterion C as a well-preserved example of the evolution from log cabin to frame I-house, a house type now scarce in a rapidly suburbanizing county.","narrative":"Near the village of Bahama in northeastern Durham County, this two-story frame I-house was built about 1880 around an older log house that still survives inside its east bay. It sits on a 13.63-acre home tract beside Lake Michie, with a surviving log smokehouse and several later outbuildings. Marcus Tilley, a farmer from a family known for early work in curing bright-leaf tobacco, likely built the enlargement. The house is notable for its modest Greek Revival interior finish and its center-hall plan. It illustrates how small farm families moved from log homesteads to larger frame houses as tobacco brought in cash. It is also tied to Nannie May Tilley, born there in 1899, who earned graduate degrees at Duke University and wrote The Bright-Tobacco Industry: 1860-1929, published in 1948. She completed her dissertation in 1939 while living at the house and is documented there until 1942. Only about seventy I-houses remain in Durham County, and this is one of the more intact.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1880; 1939-1942","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"OTHER: I-house","criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"Currently used as a single dwelling; the main block retains most original exterior and interior fabric, though windows and porch posts are replacements.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:53.353795-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/80/7200/47720080/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/99001684.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720080","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Tilley_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24436206"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/durham-county/tilley-marcus-house-99001684/"}