{"nrhp_refnum":"82001297","name":"Baker Farm","other_names":["Perdue"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"SW of Bunn on SR 1720","address_restricted":false,"city":"Bunn","county":"Franklin County","state":"NC","lat":35.94981031000003,"lon":-78.31360856899994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-10-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A modest two-story frame farmhouse with a hall-and-parlor plan, located on State Road 1720 in Bunn, Franklin County, North Carolina, with a group of outbuildings on a 235-acre cattle-breeding tract.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a representative example of a prosperous eastern North Carolina farm family's changing housing over time, reflecting Federal, Greek Revival and Victorian features. It also contains a surviving nineteenth- and twentieth-century farm complex that the document says is rapidly disappearing from rural North Carolina. The form further states that archaeological remains may yield information on the antebellum farm economy.","narrative":"Set on a slight rise in a tree-shaded yard in Franklin County, the Baker House is a two-story frame farmhouse that began as a three-bay Federal-period hall-and-parlor house, probably built in the early 1820s by James Baker. In 1856 the interior trim and mantels were reworked in the Greek Revival style, and a two-story rear wing and Victorian porch and front gable were added later in the nineteenth century. The Baker family owned the farm until 1934, and their changing tastes are visible in the house's layered woodwork. A smokehouse, a post-Civil War store building and several tobacco barns survive with it, forming a farm complex the nomination regards as increasingly rare in rural North Carolina. The property is also significant for its potential archaeological remains, which may document farm life.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal, Greek Revival and Victorian (vernacular)","criteria":["A","C","D"],"status_note":"The property was occupied as a farm in the document's account; the present owner purchased it in 1981.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.477686-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/98/7202/47720298/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/82001297.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720298","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_Farm_(Bunn,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19460350"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/franklin-county/baker-farm-82001297/"}