{"nrhp_refnum":"88001050","name":"Hart, Dr. Franklin, Farm","other_names":["Hidden Path"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"NC 48","address_restricted":false,"city":"Drake","county":"Nash County","state":"NC","lat":36.03533697450007,"lon":-77.80532048113065,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-07-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 632-acre rural farm district known as Hidden Path, about six miles north of Rocky Mount in Nash County, North Carolina, with a c. 1845 I-house, a late 18th-century rear wing, outbuildings, tobacco barns and tenant houses.","why_significant":"The farm is argued to be significant for architecture and agriculture as a largely intact collection of antebellum through early twentieth century dwellings, farm buildings and farmland. The Hart House is described as the county's most striking and best preserved two-story I-house, with a unique two-tier portico. The farm stayed in Hart family ownership and cultivation for about 200 years, and it includes four rare concrete tobacco barns built c. 1912.","narrative":"Hidden Path, the Dr. Franklin Hart Farm, covers 632 acres of flat, sandy fields and mixed forest north of Rocky Mount in Nash County. Its centerpiece is a two-story, three-bay frame I-house built about 1845, with Federal and Greek Revival details and a two-tier portico on massive turned and banded columns. A one-and-one-half story Georgian rear wing is thought to be the original Hart dwelling from the late eighteenth century. Nearby stand a detached kitchen, a smokehouse, a packhouse, three frame tobacco barns, four rare concrete tobacco barns from about 1912, and seven tenant houses. The Hart family owned and farmed the land from about 1770 until 1979, making it one of the county's longest continuously operated single-owner farms. The property was recognized for its architecture and its record of agriculture, and the land remains in cultivation with its historic setting largely unchanged.","period_of_significance":"c. 1770-1937","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Greek Revival; Other: Vernacular I-House","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The house and outbuildings have been preserved by the current owner, and the land is still farmed in cotton, tobacco and peanuts. A small ornamental nursery has been added.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:50.19847-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/88/7214/47721488/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/88001050.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721488","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Franklin_Hart_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19462218"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/nash-county/hart-dr-franklin-farm-88001050/"}