{"nrhp_refnum":"11000955","name":"Hampton-Ellis Farm","other_names":["William Beanis Hampton Farm","Jonah Ellis Farm"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"3305 Pat Tilley Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Bahama","county":"Durham County","state":"NC","lat":36.174299570000045,"lon":-79.10462182028144,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2011-12-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A c. 1900 one-story triple-A-roofed frame farmhouse with fourteen outbuildings on a former mill site near Bahama, in rural north Durham County, North Carolina. The farm was expanded around 1922 under owner Jonah Ellis.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house retains a high level of architectural integrity and that the farm has one of the largest collections of extant outbuildings in Durham County. The tobacco barns, ordering house, stripping house and packhouse are presented as representative of early twentieth-century independent Piedmont tobacco farms.","narrative":"A one-story, triple-A-roofed frame farmhouse on Pat Tilley Road near Bahama, north of Durham, was built around 1900 by William Beanis Hampton and enlarged around 1922 after Jonah Buren Ellis bought the farm. The house has a center-hall plan, a decorative front gable, a rear kitchen ell, and two-over-two wood sash windows, and it keeps much of its original interior, including painted doors and mantels. Around it stand fourteen frame and log outbuildings, among them four log tobacco barns with stone foundations, an ordering house, a stripping house, a packhouse, a feed house, a smokehouse, and a tenant house. Together they show how a small Piedmont tobacco farm worked from curing through market. The farm is regarded as one of the largest intact outbuilding complexes in Durham County. The site is also tied to the Flat River mill history and to the later creation of Lake Michie.","period_of_significance":"c. 1900-c. 1922","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Other: Triple-A House","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"The house has been vacant since the death of George Ellis in 2008, according to the document.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.076391-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/46/7200/47720046/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/11000955.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720046","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampton%E2%80%93Ellis_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19462157"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/durham-county/hampton-ellis-farm-11000955/"}