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Isaiah & Ellen Snuggs House

A modest early dwelling expanded into a prominent family home.

Map & directions ↗Marker photos & original record ↗
1873Snuggs purchase
1995National Register listing
112North Third Street
BEHIND THE MARKER

The longer story.

The county describes the Snuggs House as Albemarle’s oldest dwelling still on its original site. Its early core was a one-story log structure. The county’s account attributes an 1852 house to David Austin using deeds and tax records; the local marker more cautiously suggests John Ross in the early 1850s. This guide retains that disagreement instead of presenting one attribution as settled.

The plaque records a sale to Lafayette Greene about 1865 and to Isaiah Snuggs in 1873. Around 1880, Isaiah and Ellen enlarged the house with a second story and kitchen. Snuggs served as sheriff and in other county roles before his death in 1904. The house and neighboring Marks House entered the National Register together in 1995.

Research: HMdb: marker photographs, transcription & location ↗ · County history: Snuggs House ↗ · National Register nomination ↗

How to read this place.

The value of this house lies in the sequence visible within it: an early small dwelling became a larger home through additions. Architecture can preserve decisions made by more than one household. Compare its original-site history with the moved Freeman-Marks House behind it. Restoration records and the National Register nomination offer ways to test the marker’s abbreviated narrative.

A CHRONOLOGY, NOT A SCALE DRAWING

Milestones at a glance.

  1. Early 1850sEarly log dwelling; builder attribution differs
  2. 1873Isaiah Snuggs purchases the house
  3. About 1880Second story and kitchen added
  4. 1995National Register listing with Marks House
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Stanly County boundary and reference locations for all ten incorporated municipalities1Albemarle2Badin3Locust4Misenheimer5New London6Norwood7Oakboro8Red Cross9Richfield10Stanfield
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