Carson House
1922
Built at around the same time as the adjacent McGee House and with a nearly identical fenestration, the Carson House is a one-story, side-gable Craftsman bungalow.
Jesse Columbus Carson was born in Pitt County in 1876. After college, he wanted to teach in a region of the state with more hills. He wrote to Pilot Mountain, Germanton, and Pinnacle, and Germanton resident, John Kurfrees, traveled to Carson’s hometown of Bethel to recruit him to run the town’s newly established subscription school. A 1956 article in the Winston-Salem Journal quoted Carson as saying, “The idea didn’t sound too good, but I decided to give it a try for a year.”[1]
He arrived in Germanton in 1907, and in 1909, he married Irene Stewart. The 1910 census records the couple living in a rented house in Germanton. During World War I, Carson was named Stokes County Superintendent of Schools, and by 1920, their family had expanded to include a son and two daughters.[2]
In 1921, the Carsons bought this lot, which had been the site of a livery stable and had also been associated with an Odd Fellows hall at some point. By December of 1922, they had moved into the new house, as documented by an article in the Twin City Daily Sentinel.[3]
Irene Carson died in 1940, and in 1944, Mr. Carson married Leona Guthrie.[4]
Carson served the county as superintendent for thirty years, retiring in 1947. All three of his children became school teachers, and a high school in Salisbury is named for his son.[5]
Jesse Carson died in 1965, and Leona died in 1987. After her death, the family sold the house.[6]
Craftsman architecture became most popular in the United States during the 1920s. It originated with the Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain in the late 1800s. The Arts and Crafts Movement sprang from a reaction to industrialization and focused on handmade, nature-based, and nature-focused art that emphasized craftsmanship. In architecture, this ultimately meant the exposure of structure, such as beams and braces, to highlight the way the building was put together. By the time the concepts were interpreted into popular culture, the resulting houses had features such as exposed raftertails at the house’s eaves and applied “structure” such as exposed beam ends and kneebraces that were not actually structurally necessary. At the Carson house, kneebraces attached to the gable ends, windows that reflect interior uses (such as the smaller attic windows), and shingles covering the gable ends all serve to highlight the craftsmanship of the building.
1922
Built at around the same time as the adjacent McGee House and with a nearly identical fenestration, the Carson House is a one-story, side-gable Craftsman bungalow.
Jesse Columbus Carson was born in Pitt County in 1876. After college, he wanted to teach in a region of the state with more hills. He wrote to Pilot Mountain, Germanton, and Pinnacle, and Germanton resident, John Kurfrees, traveled to Carson’s hometown of Bethel to recruit him to run the town’s newly established subscription school. A 1956 article in the Winston-Salem Journal quoted Carson as saying, “The idea didn’t sound too good, but I decided to give it a try for a year.”[1]
He arrived in Germanton in 1907, and in 1909, he married Irene Stewart. The 1910 census records the couple living in a rented house in Germanton. During World War I, Carson was named Stokes County Superintendent of Schools, and by 1920, their family had expanded to include a son and two daughters.[2]
In 1921, the Carsons bought this lot, which had been the site of a livery stable and had also been associated with an Odd Fellows hall at some point. By December of 1922, they had moved into the new house, as documented by an article in the Twin City Daily Sentinel.[3]
Irene Carson died in 1940, and in 1944, Mr. Carson married Leona Guthrie.[4]
Carson served the county as superintendent for thirty years, retiring in 1947. All three of his children became school teachers, and a high school in Salisbury is named for his son.[5]
Jesse Carson died in 1965, and Leona died in 1987. After her death, the family sold the house.[6]
Craftsman architecture became most popular in the United States during the 1920s. It originated with the Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain in the late 1800s. The Arts and Crafts Movement sprang from a reaction to industrialization and focused on handmade, nature-based, and nature-focused art that emphasized craftsmanship. In architecture, this ultimately meant the exposure of structure, such as beams and braces, to highlight the way the building was put together. By the time the concepts were interpreted into popular culture, the resulting houses had features such as exposed raftertails at the house’s eaves and applied “structure” such as exposed beam ends and kneebraces that were not actually structurally necessary. At the Carson house, kneebraces attached to the gable ends, windows that reflect interior uses (such as the smaller attic windows), and shingles covering the gable ends all serve to highlight the craftsmanship of the building.
1. J.C. Carson was the Foundation of Stokes County School, Winston-Salem Journal, May 29, 2017, accessed April 2020 via https://www.journalnow.com/news/local/northwest-almanac-j-c-carson-was-foundation-of-stokes-schools/article_f00e01ee-526f-5504-a5b8-c8ecc054620e.html.
2. Ibid., and U.S. Census Records, 1910 and 1920, accessed via ancestry.com.
3. S.C. Hill and Wife, by trustee, to J.C. Carson, June 4, 1921, Stokes County Deed Book 69, page 227; and Winston-Salem Twin City Daily Sentinel, December 2, 1922, page 15.
4. Birth, death, and marriage dates obtained via ancestry.com and findagrave.com.
5. Journal, May 29, 2017.
6. Jesse Carson, Jr., et al to Don S. Montgomery, April 30, 1987, Stokes County Deed Book 322, page 1797.
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