{"nrhp_refnum":"87000021","name":"Moss-Johnson Farm","other_names":["Johnson Farm"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"3346 Haywood Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hendersonville","county":"Henderson County","state":"NC","lat":35.35963691200004,"lon":-82.50877205723165,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-02-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Economics","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A farm complex of ten buildings on Haywood Road northwest of Hendersonville, Henderson County, North Carolina, centered on a brick farmhouse built 1874-1880 for Oliver H. Moss by builder Riley Barnett, with outbuildings added through 1933.","why_significant":"The farm reflects western North Carolina's shift from agriculture, including tobacco, to a tourism-based economy between 1880 and 1930. The brick house is unusually substantial for its local setting and combines vernacular and popular details, including penciled stucco and fine interior woodwork attributed to Barnett.","narrative":"This farm complex on Haywood Road northwest of Hendersonville grew around a two-story brick farmhouse begun in 1874 and finished in 1880 for Oliver H. Moss. Local builder Riley Barnett, probably also its designer, made the bricks on site, covered them with tinted stucco painted with lines to imitate large, regular masonry, and crafted the walnut, chestnut and pine interior woodwork, including a quarter-turn stair rising to the attic. After the tobacco market collapsed, Moss sold the farm in 1888 to Robert Liverett. His daughter Sallie Johnson and her sons Vernon and Leander ran a summer boarding house there from about 1913 until 1958, adding a frame boarders' house, a barn and a small dwelling. The family later donated the land to the Henderson County Board of Education, which uses the complex as a farm museum and for school activities. The farm illustrates the region's move from farming to tourism and is notable for its substantial, skillfully detailed house.","period_of_significance":"1874-1933","architect_builder":"Riley Barnett (builder/architect?)","architectural_style":"Vernacular farmhouse; traditional in style","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The brick farmhouse and the small 1933 dwelling are occupied. The farm complex is owned by the county board of education and used for school activities and as a farm museum, with a teacher-caretaker living on site. The hen house and pig barn are in disrepair.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:49.884947-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/25/7208/47720825/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/87000021.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720825","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moss%E2%80%93Johnson_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19987203"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/henderson-county/moss-johnson-farm-87000021/"}