{"nrhp_refnum":"83003101","name":"Ellingson Farm","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"W of Clifton","address_restricted":false,"city":"Clifton","county":"Bosque County","state":"TX","lat":31.77865108900005,"lon":-97.71153307099996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-07-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["European","Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small farm property about 8 miles west of Clifton in Bosque County, Texas, with two historic houses: a wood-frame house built about 1893 and a one-room limestone house built about 1900, both tied to Norwegian settlers.","why_significant":"The farm includes what is believed to be the last stone house built by a Norwegian pioneer, erected about 1900 for Jacob Ellingson. The frame house, built about 1893 for his brother Bernard, is significant as a typical example of the frame farmhouses the Norwegians built in the late 19th century.","narrative":"Eight miles west of Clifton in Bosque County, Texas, near Rattlesnake Mountain, this farm holds two houses built by Norwegian settlers. The older is the Bernard Ellingson house, a one-and-a-half-story wood-frame dwelling from about 1893. It has an L-shaped plan, an intersecting-gable standing-seam metal roof, a shed-roof front porch with chamfered wood columns, one-over-one double-hung windows and shiplapped novelty siding. Nearby stands the Jacob Ellingson house, a one-room structure of quarried limestone laid with mud mortar, with a massive stone chimney on the north side and a single recessed door on the east front. It dates to about 1900 and is believed to be the last stone house erected by a Norwegian pioneer. The frame house is considered typical of farmhouses Norwegians built in the late nineteenth century. A small corrugated-tin outbuilding on the property does not contribute to its historic character. The property is currently unoccupied and used for storage.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as unoccupied and used for storage; the two houses are described as in good condition.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:18.935078-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/56/9683/40968356/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/83003101.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40968356","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110001663"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/bosque-county/ellingson-farm-83003101/"}