{"nrhp_refnum":"77001004","name":"Graham, William A., Jr., Farm","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"S of Denver on SR 1360","address_restricted":false,"city":"Kidville","county":"Lincoln County","state":"NC","lat":35.478840553000055,"lon":-81.06792198299996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1977-05-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A farm complex near Kidville in eastern Lincoln County, North Carolina, with a two-story frame farmhouse built in 1894, a sixteen-sided wooden \"round barn\", a board-and-batten smokehouse and a small dovetailed log outbuilding.","why_significant":"The farm was the working experimental farmstead of William A. Graham Jr., a state senator, state board of agriculture member and Commissioner of Agriculture from 1908 to 1923. He used innovative farming methods here, and the unusual round barn is said to be an example of innovative agricultural design. The house is a well-built, representative post-war farmhouse.","narrative":"Near Kidville in eastern Lincoln County, this farm combines a late nineteenth-century frame farmhouse with several unusual outbuildings. The two-story house, built in 1894 after an earlier family home burned, has decorative gable ornaments, drop pendant brackets and an interior finished with alternating light and dark woods. Its most striking neighbor is a sixteen-sided \"round barn\" under a low polygonal roof and an eight-sided cupola. A dovetailed log outbuilding of unknown use and a board-and-batten smokehouse also survive. The farm belonged to William A. Graham Jr., son of the North Carolina governor of the same name. He served in the state senate, sat on the state board of agriculture and was Commissioner of Agriculture from 1908 until his death in 1923. Though politically conservative, he introduced new equipment to Lincoln County, including its first double-footed plow, reaper and weeder. Local tradition links the round barn to his experimental farming.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as in good condition and altered, on its original site; the house is a private residence and the form marks the property as both occupied and unoccupied.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:56.763528-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/66/7210/47721066/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/77001004.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721066","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_A._Graham_Jr._Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19462044"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/lincoln-county/graham-william-a-jr-farm-77001004/"}