{"nrhp_refnum":"00000881","name":"Rountree Family Farm","other_names":["Alfred Patrick Rountree Farm"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"049 NC 37 N","address_restricted":false,"city":"Gatesville","county":"Gates County","state":"NC","lat":36.44356275100006,"lon":-76.75412733874285,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-08-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"The Rountree Family Farm is a family farm of about 87 acres with two historic residences, domestic and agricultural outbuildings, and a family cemetery, located about 2.5 miles north of Gatesville in central Gates County, North Carolina. The Simmons Rountree House, built about 1830, is a two-story, one-room-plan frame house, and the Alfred Patrick Rountree House was built in 1904 and enlarged in 1916.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the farm is one of very few places in Gates County owned and occupied by a single family for about two centuries, with buildings reflecting both domestic and agricultural life over roughly 170 years. The Simmons Rountree House is described as an intact exemplar of its type in the county, and the 1904 house and the family privy are cited as rare surviving examples of their kinds in the region.","narrative":"Set on roughly 87 acres of fields, woodland and house grounds about 2.5 miles north of Gatesville, the Rountree Family Farm holds two family houses, outbuildings and a family cemetery. The Simmons Rountree House, a two-story frame house with a one-room plan, was built about 1830 by Simmons Rountree, grandson of Abner Rountree, who acquired the original 140-acre tract in 1800. Its interior is largely intact, with a full wainscot, a post-and-lintel mantel and an enclosed stair. The Alfred Patrick Rountree House was built in 1904 by carpenter Tom Beamon, an African American craftsman, and enlarged in 1916. The farm is listed for its architecture and its agriculture. The family privy, with three graduated openings on a boarded bench, is regarded as one of the few surviving examples of its type in the region and probably the state. The farm's landscape records four generations of family farming.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1830 - 1950","architect_builder":"Beamon, Tom-builder; Hayes, Charles--builder","architectural_style":"Federal","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Simmons Rountree House has not been occupied as a residence since 1907 but has been maintained; the farm is owned by Annie Elizabeth Rountree, who continues to occupy the Alfred Patrick Rountree House.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.272223-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/35/7204/47720435/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/00000881.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000881/0c386f1845-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000881/0c386f1845-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rountree_Family_Farmhouse.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rountree_Family_Farmhouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720435","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rountree_Family_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21187963"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/gates-county/rountree-family-farm-00000881/"}