{"nrhp_refnum":"06000289","name":"Perry-Shepherd Farm","other_names":["Shepherd, Swansie Farm"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"410 Swansie Shepherd Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lansing","county":"Ashe County","state":"NC","lat":36.50864270000005,"lon":-81.56302617467162,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-04-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A sixty-two acre farmstead at the end of Swansie Shepherd Road near Apple Grove, on Little Horse Creek in northwestern Ashe County, North Carolina, with a main house built about 1890, a caretaker's cottage, barn, granary, warehouse and sheds. The house is a decorated I-house with Queen Anne-inspired ornamentation.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the farmhouse is a good example of a common Ashe County house type from 1880 to 1910, with Queen Anne-inspired ornament and a front-gable, double-tier porch, and that the farm as a whole shows the agricultural history of the county, including its orchard, blueberry production and shift toward cash crops by the 1950s.","narrative":"Built about 1890 by Jonathan and Alvah Perry, the two-story farmhouse on this sixty-two acre property in northwestern Ashe County is a decorated I-house with a double-porch front and Queen Anne-inspired sawn balustrades, brackets and cut-work. Its rear wing is two rooms wide, unusual for the county, and the interior retains beadboard walls, turned stair balusters and a center passage plan. The Shepherd family, who bought the farm in 1904, ran it as a working farm through the mid-twentieth century, raising livestock, tobacco, beans and fruit. The property includes a heirloom apple orchard, with varieties such as Winesap and Yellow Transparent, and a blueberry patch planted about 1965. Its house type reflects the prosperous 1880 to 1910 period in Ashe County, and the farm illustrates the county's shift from subsistence to cash-based agriculture by the 1950s.","period_of_significance":"C. 1890 1956","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The house is undergoing a major rehabilitation following the Secretary of the Interior's Standards to repair termite damage and remove late-twentieth century changes.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.666339-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/38/7189/47718938/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/06000289.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718938","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry%E2%80%93Shepherd_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18156743"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/ashe-county/perry-shepherd-farm-06000289/"}