{"nrhp_refnum":"86003504","name":"Venters Farm Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"US 258 and NC 1229","address_restricted":false,"city":"Richlands","county":"Onslow County","state":"NC","lat":34.86256859400004,"lon":-77.54570157221562,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-05-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A farm historic district of about 37 buildings on roughly 536 acres on both sides of US 258 near Richlands, Onslow County, North Carolina, west of the New River. The core was built from about 1896 by Wayne and Julia Venters.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the farm as a unique surviving example of the large landowner/tenant system of farming common from the late 19th century through the first half of the 20th century. It retains the family house, farm outbuildings, tobacco barns and a row of tenant houses in their original rural setting. Twenty-three buildings contribute and fourteen, built after the period of significance, do not.","narrative":"Venters Farm is a working agricultural district of about 37 buildings on roughly 536 acres along US 258 near Richlands, west of the New River. It grew from land inherited in 1896 by newlyweds Wayne and Julia Venters, who built a two-story late Victorian farmhouse with Italianate and Queen Anne details, a detached kitchen, a corn barn, a carriage house and a smokehouse. Later additions include a mule and hay barn, a cow and pig barn, tobacco curing barns and pack houses. Nine tenant houses, dating from 1896 to the 1950s, sit in groves of trees along the highway and are surrounded by open fields of tobacco and corn. The district was listed because it survives as a distinctive example of the large landowner and tenant farming pattern that prevailed from the late nineteenth century through the first half of the twentieth. Twenty-three buildings contribute to the district, while fourteen built in the 1950s and 1960s do not.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Wayne Venters (builder of the original buildings); house begun by a local carpenter, Mr. Rouse","architectural_style":"Late Victorian with some Italianate and Queen Anne details (main house)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as occupied and partly unoccupied, in agricultural use (tobacco and corn) and as private residence; the farm house is described as well maintained.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:50.380878-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/1/7216/47721601/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/86003504.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86003504/848273e24a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86003504/848273e24a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Tradewinds","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Venters_Farm_Historic_District.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Tradewinds</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Venters_Farm_Historic_District.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721601","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venters_Farm_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19817720"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/onslow-county/venters-farm-historic-district-86003504/"}