{"nrhp_refnum":"83003999","name":"Shaw Family Farms","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"SR 1405","address_restricted":false,"city":"Wagram","county":"Scotland County","state":"NC","lat":34.87654465050005,"lon":-79.39816914395428,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-10-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Health/Medicine","Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A rural district of three adjacent frame farmhouses, outbuildings and about 575 acres of farmland along SR 1405 near Wagram, Scotland County, North Carolina, built from about 1885 to 1900 by Dr. Daniel Shaw and two of his sons.","why_significant":"The three houses and their lands form the finest collection of neighboring family farms in Scotland County and record the evolution of a family farm complex. They are tied to prominent Shaw family members who were farmers, physicians, politicians and civic leaders. Each house represents one of three house types popular in the county in the late 19th century.","narrative":"Three farmhouses stand close together along SR 1405 southeast of Wagram, surrounded by about 575 acres of fields, pastures and woodland. Dr. Daniel Shaw built the largest house about 1885, a two-story frame dwelling with a two-tier pedimented porch. His son Alexander Edwin Shaw built a rambling one-story house with a wraparound porch of turned posts at about the same time. Another son, Dr. William Graham Shaw, built a Queen Anne-influenced one-story house around 1900. Outbuildings include an octagonal lattice gazebo, two lattice-covered washhouses, a pumphouse and a commissary. The Shaws were prominent in farming, medicine, education, banking and politics in Scotland County, and the houses served as family residences into the 1930s. Together they show three popular local house forms built with money from a strong cotton economy, and they make up what the nomination calls the finest group of neighboring family farms in the county.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899 (ca. 1885 and turn of century)","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Greek Revival trim (Dr. Daniel Shaw House); rambling vernacular frame with Victorian porch (A. E. Shaw House); simplified Queen Anne with Colonial Revival interior (Dr. W. G. Shaw House)","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Two houses are in good repair; the A. E. Shaw House is tenant-occupied and deteriorated but intact and restorable. Agriculture continues on the land.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:51.021387-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/27/7222/47722227/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/83003999.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83003999/963f791377-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83003999/963f791377-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Eastward Gypsy","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shaw_House,_ca._1885,_Wagram,_NC.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Eastward Gypsy</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shaw_House,_ca._1885,_Wagram,_NC.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722227","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaw_Family_Farms","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19946155"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/scotland-county/shaw-family-farms-83003999/"}