{"nrhp_refnum":"72001002","name":"Mast Farm","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"E of Valle Crucis off SR 1112","address_restricted":false,"city":"Valle Crucis","county":"Watauga County","state":"NC","lat":36.206510327000046,"lon":-81.77067444999994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1972-01-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A nineteenth-century mountain farm complex of ten major buildings on SR 1112 near Valle Crucis, Watauga County, North Carolina, in a small valley opening onto the Watauga River bottomlands. The earliest building dates to about 1812 and the main house to 1885.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that the farm is an unusually complete and well-preserved example of a typical nineteenth-century North Carolina mountain farm. Its buildings, each shaped by its function, show the range of work on a self-sustaining farm. The complex also traces a pioneer family's progression from a small log dwelling to a larger house and landholdings, and includes one of the best-preserved groups of nineteenth-century farm buildings in western North Carolina.","narrative":"Mast Farm is a complex of ten major buildings in a small valley near Valle Crucis, in Watauga County, North Carolina, surrounded by forested hills. The oldest structure is a two-story squared-log dwelling built about 1812, thought to be the work of David Mast and later converted to a weaving house. His son Andrew B. Mast greatly enlarged the farm and had the present main house built in 1885 by M. C. Church. Later generations took in summer boarders escaping the lowland heat, and the house was expanded for them. Other buildings include a gazebo, wash house, spring house, meat house with a bell tower, woodhouse, apple house, blacksmith shop and a large gambrel-roofed barn. Each building reflects its particular job on a self-sufficient farm. The property was listed because it is one of the most complete and best-preserved groups of nineteenth-century farm buildings in western North Carolina, and because it shows a pioneer family's rise from a small log house to larger landholdings.","period_of_significance":"19th and 20th centuries (no specific dates given)","architect_builder":"M. C. Church (built main house, 1885, for Andrew B. Mast); David Mast thought to have built the log weaving house about 1812","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as excellent to good and varying; buildings described as virtually unaltered since construction. Used as a private residence and for agriculture.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:56.150893-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/62/7227/47722762/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/72001002.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72001002/519a0ed488-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72001002/519a0ed488-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"Brian Stansberry","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mast-Farm-House-nc1.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Brian Stansberry</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mast-Farm-House-nc1.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722762","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mast_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20679811"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/watauga-county/mast-farm-72001002/"}