{"nrhp_refnum":"86000572","name":"Oates, Livingston, Farm","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"SR 1748 W of NC 403","address_restricted":false,"city":"Clinton","county":"Sampson County","state":"NC","lat":35.07015844500006,"lon":-78.25750264299995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-03-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A late-19th-century farmstead on a 5.82-acre tract northeast of Clinton in Sampson County, North Carolina, centered on a one-story frame Greek Revival house built in the 1870s (about 1875) for farmer Livingston Oates, with surviving farm outbuildings.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the farm keeps one of the county's more complete sets of late-19th-century outbuildings, reflecting traditional farmstead layout. The house is described as the county's finest example of the bold gable front porch form of the Greek Revival. A half-dovetail log root cellar is noted as one of the finest log outbuildings in the county, and the site may yield archaeological information.","narrative":"Northeast of Clinton in Sampson County, this farmstead centers on a one-story frame house built around 1875 for Livingston Oates, a local planter and farmer. The house is described as the county's finest example of the bold gable front porch form of the Greek Revival, with an engaged porch carried on six pillars, turned balusters, a lattice frieze, and battered door and window surrounds with peaked lintels. Around it stands an unusually intact group of frame outbuildings: a commissary, a large center-aisle barn and stable measuring 42 by 55 feet, a tractor shed, a two-story packhouse, an early gas pump, and a half-dovetail log root cellar. The 1880 census recorded about 60 cultivated acres, with corn, cotton, swine, sheep and dairy cows. The property stayed in the Oates family until 1978. It was listed for its representative farm layout, its Greek Revival house, and its potential archaeological value.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival (bold gable front porch form)","criteria":["A","C","D"],"status_note":"Condition marked excellent and altered; the house interior was undergoing remodeling at the time of the form. The property was marked as a private residence and agriculture use, occupied.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:50.481089-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/93/7183/47718393/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/86000572.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718393","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livingston_Oates_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19987364"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/sampson-county/oates-livingston-farm-86000572/"}