{"nrhp_refnum":"84002000","name":"Everhart, Hamilton, Farm","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"US 52","address_restricted":false,"city":"Midway","county":"Davidson County","state":"NC","lat":35.92901155450005,"lon":-80.22531111372257,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-07-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A compact farmstead of log and frame buildings on the Thomas Road (SR 1815) near Midway in north central Davidson County, North Carolina, built about 1860 by Hamilton Everhart. It includes a two-story log house, a log kitchen, a double-pen log barn and a potato house.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is the most intact example in Davidson County of the small homestead common across the county in the mid-nineteenth century. Its modest scale and many outbuildings reflect the self-sufficiency of the local economy. The house interior is also noted for a distinctive arched mantel and overmantel.","narrative":"Hamilton Everhart Farm is a small cluster of log buildings on the Thomas Road near Midway in Davidson County, built about 1860. The centerpiece is a two-story, half-dovetailed log house with a hall-and-parlor plan, covered in weatherboard around 1906. A log kitchen, originally behind the house, was moved into a nearby field when a frame rear wing was added. Across the road stands a double-pen log barn that is almost unaltered and keeps original gates with homemade hardware. A small log potato house and early twentieth-century frame buildings, including a wellhouse dated 1913, complete the farm. Census and deed records indicate Hamilton Everhart bought land here in 1860 and raised eight children on the farm. His son Robert later farmed it and ran the family blacksmith shop, since demolished. The property is valued as the most intact surviving example in the county of the modest, self-sufficient homesteads that were common in the mid-nineteenth century.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1860","architect_builder":"Hamilton Everhart (builder, per family tradition); listed as unknown in the builder/architect field","architectural_style":"Vernacular log construction with Greek Revival doors and a vernacular Georgian-style mantel","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Owned privately and used in recent years as a summer cottage; rented to a tenant for forty-eight years earlier. The blacksmith shop has been demolished.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:50.339642-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/13/7176/47717613/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/84002000.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717613","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton_Everhart_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18348138"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/davidson-county/everhart-hamilton-farm-84002000/"}