{"nrhp_refnum":"86000556","name":"Delta Farm","other_names":["Robinson, J.W. Scott, Farm"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"SR 1100 N of SR 1105","address_restricted":false,"city":"Ivanhoe","county":"Sampson County","state":"NC","lat":34.63641751500003,"lon":-78.24238126908048,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-03-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story Colonial Revival frame farmhouse built in 1910 with surviving outbuildings on a 444-acre farm along the Black River near Ivanhoe, Sampson County, North Carolina. It was built for J. W. Scott Robinson to replace an earlier house that burned.","why_significant":"The farm is argued to illustrate the rural plantation economy and agricultural development at the turn of the century, including naval stores production. It was the home of John Winfield Scott Robinson, a prominent farmer, merchant, postmaster and legislator. The house is noted for its Colonial Revival design and interior woodwork, especially the bi-fold dining room doors, and the site may yield information about agrarian life.","narrative":"Delta Farm is a 444-acre property beside the Black River near Ivanhoe in southern Sampson County, North Carolina. Its centerpiece is a large two-story Colonial Revival house built in 1910 for J. W. Scott Robinson after an earlier house burned. The frame house has a wrap-around screened porch, a hip roof and a spacious interior with dark-stained woodwork, a gently rising staircase and twelve-foot-wide bi-fold doors to the dining room. Surviving outbuildings include a gas house, smokehouses, a servants' ironing house, a root cellar and a trumpery house. Robinson was a farmer, storekeeper and postmaster who ran a private boat landing called Delta Landing, from which the farm takes its name. He served in the state legislature in 1885 and 1899. The farm was recognized for its link to turn-of-the-century plantation agriculture and naval stores production, for Robinson's role in local life, and for the quality of its architecture and woodwork.","period_of_significance":"1900- (specific date 1910)","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","B","C","D"],"status_note":"Listed as occupied, in excellent condition, and used as a private residence and for agriculture; several outbuildings are deteriorated and others were lost in Hurricane Hazel in 1954.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:49.186199-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/7/7184/47718407/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/86000556.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718407","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19867975"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/sampson-county/delta-farm-86000556/"}