{"nrhp_refnum":"02000113","name":"Hauser Farm","other_names":["Horne Creek Living Historical Farm"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"308 Horne Creek Farm Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Pinnacle","county":"Surry County","state":"NC","lat":36.26653436750004,"lon":-80.485680713503,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-03-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Hauser Farm is a historic farmstead in Pilot Mountain State Park, Surry County, North Carolina, overlooking the Yadkin River, now operated as Horne Creek Living Historical Farm. It includes a circa 1880 two-story log house with weatherboard sheathing and a complex of outbuildings dating from about 1846 to 1930.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the farm is significant under Criterion A for agriculture, as a small farmstead that grew over four generations of the Hauser family into one of the largest and most prosperous farms in southeastern Surry County. It is also argued to be significant under Criterion C as an example of the vernacular log building tradition in Surry, Yadkin and Forsyth Counties, with an assemblage of log outbuildings and a transition to frame construction in some outbuildings.","narrative":"Hauser Farm is a farmstead in Surry County, North Carolina, set in a valley above the Yadkin River. John Hauser bought the land in 1830, and his son Thomas later built the two-story log house, finished around 1880, which was remodeled about 1900 with turned porch posts and a paint scheme of twenty-four colors. The farm grew to 450 acres under Thomas Hauser, who died in 1911, and produced corn, wheat, tobacco, oats, potatoes, fruit, livestock and sorghum molasses. The complex includes a double-crib log barn dated by dendrochronology to about 1846, a smokehouse, a tobacco barn and a corn crib. The property was listed for its agricultural history and for its surviving log buildings, which represent the vernacular log tradition of the region in the nineteenth century. Its rural farm complex is also noted as rare in the county. The site opened as a living history farm in 1987.","period_of_significance":"1846-1953","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Vernacular log house","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Phase I of the building restoration was completed in 2000 and Phase II was underway; the farm is administered by the Historic Sites Section of the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.696071-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/98/7222/47722298/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/02000113.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000113/11097fef58-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000113/11097fef58-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Wilson59604","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hauser_Farmhouse_with_washhouse.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Wilson59604</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hauser_Farmhouse_with_washhouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722298","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horne_Creek_Living_Historical_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5904221"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/surry-county/hauser-farm-02000113/"}