{"nrhp_refnum":"01001134","name":"Griffin, W.W., Farm","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1871 Wendell Griffin Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Williamston","county":"Martin County","state":"NC","lat":35.82932236900007,"lon":-76.95782006699994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2001-10-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A farm complex near Williamston in Martin County, North Carolina, centered on a two-story I-house built about 1902 by William W. Griffin, with five outbuildings, a well, an agricultural landscape and a 1994 ranch house on about 6.8 acres.","why_significant":"The farmhouse is argued to be one of the best remaining examples of a stylish I-house in Martin County, nearly unaltered since construction (Criterion C). The farm is also an intact example of a representative early-twentieth-century North Carolina farmstead (Criterion A, agriculture).","narrative":"This farm in Martin County, North Carolina, centers on a two-story frame I-house built around 1902 by William W. Griffin. The house has weatherboard siding, a three-bay front with six-over-six windows, a decorated porch with turned posts and scalloped trim, and a rear ell containing the kitchen. A small detached room was added about 1930, when Griffin returned from a sanitarium after tuberculosis. The house was wired for electricity about 1946 but never received indoor plumbing or central heating. The nominated 6.8 acres include a corn crib, cotton barn, hay barn, storage shed, brick well, vineyards, a farm lane and cultivated fields, with a 1994 ranch house and a 1970 machinery shed counted as non-contributing. Griffin eventually accumulated over 1,200 acres, grew crops such as cotton, tobacco, corn and peanuts, and took part in local civic and timber affairs. The property was listed for its architecture and as an intact early-twentieth-century farmstead, with a period of significance from about 1902 to 1940.","period_of_significance":"c. 1902 - 1940","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Late 19th and early 20th century: Other: I-house","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Occupied until 1995; somewhat deteriorated from neglect but structurally sound, and undergoing renovation following the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:54.135679-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/3/7212/47721203/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/01001134.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721203","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._W._Griffin_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19462088"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/martin-county/griffin-w-w-farm-01001134/"}