{"nrhp_refnum":"88001270","name":"Stovall, John W., Farm","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"NC 1507","address_restricted":false,"city":"Stovall","county":"Granville County","state":"NC","lat":36.45657681500006,"lon":-78.55592543495688,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-08-31","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 54-acre tobacco farm near Stovall, Granville County, North Carolina, centered on a two-part heavy timber farmhouse built before the Civil War, with outbuildings, tobacco barns and a family cemetery.","why_significant":"The house is one of the older intact dwellings in Granville County and a well-maintained example of Federal and Greek Revival architecture. The surviving outbuildings also represent life on a traditional bright leaf tobacco farm. The period of significance ends in 1937 because later farming has not achieved exceptional significance within the past 50 years.","narrative":"Set on 54 acres near the town of Stovall in Granville County, North Carolina, this family tobacco farm is centered on a farmhouse of two parts, both built before the Civil War. The two-story western half was already standing as a Presbyterian glebe house when John W. and Lucy Stovall bought the farm in 1839. The Stovalls added the one-and-a-half-story eastern half shortly before the war. The woodwork mixes Federal and Greek Revival details, including a transitional parlor mantel with Greek fret blocks. Nearby are a stable, corncrib, smokehouses, a lumber house, a packhouse, four log tobacco barns and a family cemetery. John Stovall was a prosperous planter whose name was given to the nearby town after he granted the railroad a right-of-way. The farm is valued as one of the county's older intact dwellings and as a record of bright leaf tobacco farming through 1937, and it has stayed in the family since 1839.","period_of_significance":"1830s-1937","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival; Federal","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The house is described as meticulously maintained and is still used as a dwelling and farm; the farm has remained in the same family since 1839.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:50.283095-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/98/7178/47717898/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/88001270.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717898","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_W._Stovall_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24436231"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/granville-county/stovall-john-w-farm-88001270/"}