{"nrhp_refnum":"00000392","name":"Isenhour, Daniel, House and Farm","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"11970 Mt. Olive Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Gold Hill","county":"Cabarrus County","state":"NC","lat":35.496101935500064,"lon":-80.3805697537089,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-04-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 73-acre farm complex in the vicinity of Gold Hill, northeast Cabarrus County, North Carolina, centered on a two-story frame house built about 1843 for cabinetmaker and farmer Daniel Isenhour, with a double-pen log barn and frame outbuildings.","why_significant":"The farm is associated with antebellum cabinetmaking in Cabarrus County and illustrates the traditional lifeway of a rural craftsman who combined his trade with farming. The house is an example of Federal-Greek Revival construction updated with Italianate detail in the late nineteenth century. The landscape also reflects three generations of one family's place-making from about 1843 to 1963.","narrative":"This 73-acre farm near Gold Hill in northeast Cabarrus County centers on a weatherboarded two-story house built around 1843 for Daniel Isenhour, a farmer and cabinetmaker. The house has a Federal-Greek Revival character, with nine-over-six sash, center-hall plan, original pine floors and flush-sheathed walls. In the last quarter of the nineteenth century a one-story rear ell was added and bracketed Italianate eaves and porches updated its look. The grounds hold a smoke house, a well shed, several farm outbuildings and a double-pen log barn, set among pastures, maples, pear and fruit trees, and about forty acres of woodland. Isenhour trained his son in cabinetmaking, and the property reflects the rural craftsman who worked a trade while farming modestly. Three generations of the family lived here until 1963. The house was being restored when it was documented, with deteriorated weatherboards replaced in kind and the foundation stabilized.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1843 to ca. 1950","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate (Federal-Greek Revival core); log barn","criteria":[],"status_note":"The house was undergoing restoration and renovation at the time of the form, and current function is listed as work in progress and vacant/not in use.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:53.8426-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/69/7193/47719369/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/00000392.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719369","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Isenhour_House_and_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18152547"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/cabarrus-county/isenhour-daniel-house-and-farm-00000392/"}