{"nrhp_refnum":"07000146","name":"Woodlawn Farm","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1463 Gierke Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Jacksonville","county":"Morgan County","state":"IL","lat":39.735642695000024,"lon":-90.13890445299995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2007-06-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Woodlawn Farm is a farmstead of about 6 acres roughly 3.5 miles east of Jacksonville, Morgan County, Illinois. It includes a brick I-house farmhouse built around the early 1840s, a 1930s barn, an early 20th-century storage building and a non-contributing 1980s garage.","why_significant":"The farmstead is significant under Criterion A for documenting Illinois agricultural history, as the house shows the physical and stylistic changes typical of farmhouses between 1840 and 1940. It is significant under Criterion B for its link to Michael Huffaker, one of the earliest settlers in central Morgan County. Oral tradition holds that Huffaker helped escaped slaves and that the house was an Underground Railroad stop, though the evidence is not conclusive.","narrative":"Woodlawn Farm is a six-acre farmstead about three and a half miles east of Jacksonville, Illinois. Its centerpiece is a five-bay, two-and-one-half-story brick I-house with a central hall plan, built around the early 1840s for Michael Huffaker. The plain detailing is primarily Federal, with a deep frieze board and a transom-and-sidelight entrance hinting at the Greek Revival. A large hip-roofed addition was built around 1928 by the Lovekamp family, who modernized the kitchen, bathrooms and wiring while keeping much original material. The farmstead also includes a 1930s barn that replaced one reported to have burned, and an early 20th-century storage building. Huffaker was among the earliest settlers of central Morgan County. Local tradition, though not conclusively documented, says he sheltered escaped slaves here. The property is recognized for showing how a farmhouse changed between 1840 and 1940, and for its association with Huffaker. The Morgan County Historical Society now uses it for interpretation.","period_of_significance":"1840-1956","architect_builder":"Unknown; John Wolke was contractor for the circa 1928 addition","architectural_style":"Early Republic/Federal; Other: I-House","criteria":["A","B"],"status_note":"Current function is recreation and culture/museum, with work in progress; the Morgan County Historical Society bought the site in 2003 for interpreting Underground Railroad history.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:37.568583-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/67/8937/28893767/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/07000146.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07000146/8ada6f0347-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07000146/8ada6f0347-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Goetsch E","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woodlawn_Farm_near_Jacksonville;_IL,_a_stop_on_the_Underground_Railroad_%E2%80%93_no2.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Goetsch E</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:Woodlawn_Farm_near_Jacksonville;_IL,_a_stop_on_the_Underground_Railroad_%E2%80%93_no2.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28893767","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodlawn_Farm_(Jacksonville,_Illinois)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25203163"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/morgan-county/woodlawn-farm-07000146/"}