{"nrhp_refnum":"84002131","name":"Koonts, Capt. John, Jr., Farm","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"SR 1186","address_restricted":false,"city":"Tyro","county":"Davidson County","state":"NC","lat":35.84601135700004,"lon":-80.38240887329594,"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 250-acre farm on the Yadkin River in western Davidson County, North Carolina, near Tyro, with a one-story frame Italianate-style farmhouse built in the 1870s and three original log outbuildings.","why_significant":"The house is argued to be one of the most architecturally significant Reconstruction-era farm complexes in Davidson County. Its unusual y-plan with a hexagonal belvedere reduces the design of nearby Cooleemee Plantation (1855) to a frame vernacular farmhouse. The nomination cites Criterion C for this postbellum influence of an antebellum plantation house.","narrative":"Overlooking the Yadkin River in western Davidson County, this farm centers on an unusual one-story frame house built for Captain John Koonts Jr. between 1870 and 1880. Its plan has a two-story hexagonal center section topped by a belvedere, with three one-story wings and a semicircular front porch. Greek Revival eaves and corner posts contrast with the Italianate porch. Behind the house stand three original half-dovetail log outbuildings: a double pen barn, a corn crib and a granary, plus a frame well house. The design appears to follow Cooleemee Plantation, an 1855 villa across the river in Davie County, and Koonts bought land from that estate's owners in the early 1870s. Only one other postbellum house in the county, the Philip Sowers House, shows similar inspiration. Later changes include a larger rear porch and a bathroom addition. The farm is valued as a vernacular reinterpretation of a grand plantation house.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Vernacular Italianate Revival, with Greek Revival detailing","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Condition is marked fair and altered; the interior trim is likely largely intact but in poor repair. The farm has been leased to tenants since 1927.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:50.464287-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/25/7176/47717625/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/84002131.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717625","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capt._John_Koonts_Jr._Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18331116"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/davidson-county/koonts-capt-john-jr-farm-84002131/"}