Camp, William Nelson, Jr., House
Why it's listed
Built ca. 1926 on a mountainside in Fairview, north of Asheville, this group of Rustic-style buildings was constructed for William Nelson Camp, Jr., a member of the Camp family whose fortunes came from timber, paper, phosphate mining and hydroelectric power in Virginia and Florida. Camp bought the land in 1925 and used local builders, a sawmill on the adjacent property and field stone gathered on site. The main house is a one-and-one-half story building with half-log walls on the first floor, shingled upper walls, steep gable roofs and multi-light casement windows. Its great room has a random-laid field stone fireplace and exposed hand-hewn ceiling beams. Smaller outbuildings include a water storage building, a garage, a cottage, two spring houses and a barn, several of them built into the hillside and using local granite. Camp also used the creek on the property for a small hydroelectric plant. The complex is regarded as a highly intact example of Rustic architecture in Buncombe County from the early twentieth century.
Significance in brief: The nomination argues the complex is a highly intact example of Rustic style architecture of the early twentieth century in Buncombe County. The main house uses half-round logs, stone foundations, shingle siding and hand-hewn ceiling beams, with the buildings sited to fit the natural landscape. Its significance is architectural, under Criterion C.
Machine-generated summary. This summary was generated by a language model from the official nomination document and has not been reviewed line by line by an editor. It may contain errors. Check the source document before relying on any detail. Source: nomination document (PDF) · National Archives catalog entry. NRHP reference 98001530, listed December 17, 1998. Summary generated October 2026 (model claude-haiku-5-5, prompt v1.1-2026-10-29, confidence high).
Key facts
| Address | 92 Flat Top Mountain Rd., Fairview |
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| County | Buncombe County |
| Listed | December 17, 1998 |
| Reference number | 98001530 |
| Resource type | Building |
| Period of significance | ca. 1926 |
| Architectural style | Rustic |
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| Areas of significance | Architecture |
| Level of significance | Local |
| Acreage | 10.8 |
| Coordinates | 35.54912, -82.39185 (NPS GIS) |
What listing means for this property
National Register listing is honorary for a privately owned home: it does not by itself restrict what an owner may do with their own money, and it does not require public access. Restrictions come from local landmark or historic-district ordinances, which are separate (how they differ).
Owner-occupied houses are not eligible for the 20% federal rehabilitation tax credit, which applies to income-producing buildings, but many states offer credits for homeowners. Listing also opens the door to preservation easements and to buying a plaque. Start with what listing means for homeowners, renovating a listed house and selling one.
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Sources and further reading
- National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places database (snapshot May 2026), reference 98001530.
- Nomination form (PDF, National Archives) — catalog entry
- Wikipedia article (used for cross-checking only; text not reproduced here)
- Wikidata Q17986240
- This listing as JSON
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