{"nrhp_refnum":"83003107","name":"Hoff-Ulland Farm","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"SW of Clifton","address_restricted":false,"city":"Clifton","county":"Bosque County","state":"TX","lat":31.724442010000075,"lon":-97.63428684299998,"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 farmstead about five miles southwest of Clifton, Bosque County, Texas, centered on a stone house first built in 1881 and enlarged in 1912, with several outbuildings.","why_significant":"The house was built by Norwegian settlers Mikkel and Johanna Hoff in 1881 and received a major addition in 1912, making it one of the largest houses in the settlement. It is considered significant because it shows the changing architectural tastes of second-generation Norwegians.","narrative":"About five miles southwest of Clifton, Texas, this farmstead sits on level ground roughly a mile north of Neils Creek. Mikkel and Johanna Hoff built the original two-story stone house in 1881. In 1912 a much larger stone structure was added to the north and joined to the older portion by wood-frame construction. The new north-facing front is symmetrical, with a two-tiered porch, a second-story balcony beneath a prominent gable, stuccoed walls, one-over-one windows, and stone and brick chimneys at each end. Gable ends carry wooden shingles in a saw-toothed pattern. Outbuildings include a frame barn with stone-lined cellars, an above-ground cistern, a frame corn crib, and two modern metal-sided sheds. The property was listed because the expanded house, among the largest in the Norwegian settlement, reveals how the architectural tastes of second-generation Norwegians changed. The house was described as unoccupied and in fair repair.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Mikkel and Johanna Hoff (original 1881 house)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as unoccupied and in a fair state of repair; present use given as private residence and agriculture.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:18.838429-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/67/9683/40968367/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/83003107.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40968367","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110001688"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/bosque-county/hoff-ulland-farm-83003107/"}