{"nrhp_refnum":"04000945","name":"McCafferty Run Farmstead","other_names":["Ackley, Homer and Jenola","McKee, David &amp","Kathy"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"17114 and 17226 OH 104","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chillocothe","county":"Ross County","state":"OH","lat":39.39025458700007,"lon":-83.01175089599997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-09-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A farmstead of 17 contributing resources on State Route 104 near Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio, centered on a 1940 Cottage Tudor farmhouse with a 1939 Wisconsin-type dairy barn, granary, silo and other outbuildings.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the farmstead is significant for agriculture, as the base of Homer Ackley's expanding cattle and hog operation from 1917 to 1954, and for architecture, as a well-preserved mid-twentieth-century farm complex. It combines a rare Cottage Tudor farmhouse with a Louden-designed Wisconsin Dairy Barn and an idiosyncratic granary Ackley designed himself.","narrative":"This farmstead on the east side of State Route 104 near Chillicothe sits on a terrace above the Scioto Valley bottomland. Its main elements date largely from 1939 to 1952, when Homer Ackley, who began working the land in 1917 and inherited it in 1938, built up a feeder-cattle and hog operation. The 1940 farmhouse is a Cottage Tudor design with brick walls and a green ceramic tile roof, a style almost absent from local farmsteads. Nearby stands a 1939 Wisconsin Dairy Barn designed by the Louden Machinery Company and built by Ackley's crew, along with a granary Ackley designed himself, a 1952 concrete-stave silo, a silage feeder, garages, a chicken coop and a tool shed. The complex was listed for its association with twentieth-century agriculture and for its well-preserved architecture. Seventeen resources contribute to the property, which covers 4.73 acres and remains an active farm.","period_of_significance":"1917 to 1954","architect_builder":"Garlinghouse Company; Marietta Concrete Company; Louden Machinery Company; Works Progress Administration; Homer Ackley","architectural_style":"20th Century Revival: Cottage Tudor Revival; No Style","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The farmhouse, barn and granary are described as in excellent condition; the farmstead remains in agricultural use, though livestock operations ended in 1981 and it became a crop farm.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:07.370119-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/04000945.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000945/72f592ca70-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000945/72f592ca70-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Aesopposea","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:McCaffertyFarmstead.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Aesopposea</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:McCaffertyFarmstead.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71991171","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138667180"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/ross-county/mccafferty-run-farmstead-04000945/"}