{"nrhp_refnum":"89000341","name":"Power Farmstead","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Co. Rd. 9.5 North, 0.5 mi. E of Cantrall","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cantrall","county":"Sangamon County","state":"IL","lat":39.94376603050006,"lon":-89.66270045117476,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-05-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Exploration/Settlement","Politics/Government"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 98-acre 19th-century farmstead on County Road 9.5 N, about a mile east of Cantrall in Fancy Creek Township, Sangamon County, Illinois, built by George Power from 1829 onward. It holds 11 contributing buildings, three structures, an object and a family cemetery.","why_significant":"The farmstead is an unusually complete example of a 19th-century central Illinois farm layout, with the main house, outbuildings, fencing and cemetery largely unchanged. It reflects the rise of George Power, a self-made pioneer who became one of the county's largest landowners, and the shift to commercial stock and crop farming. A state rural property survey found no other Sangamon County farm with as many surviving 19th-century outbuildings.","narrative":"Power Farmstead is a 98-acre complex near Cantrall in Sangamon County, Illinois, laid out by pioneer farmer George Power after he arrived in 1821. It includes a brick farmhouse from about 1840-1850, later given Queen Anne additions, and a frame courthouse of 1829 that served as both home and courtroom for Justice Power. Other buildings include a detached summer kitchen, a stable, a 100-foot barn from about 1885, a scales house, a corn crib, service buildings, a privy, and a family cemetery with a limestone mausoleum. Power began with five dollars and built a farm of nearly 2,500 acres, the largest in the township. His barn and scales house reflect the growth of cash-crop and livestock farming after the Civil War. The farmstead is notable for its completeness: its buildings, fences and lanes remain much as they were more than a century ago, and only two small twentieth-century sheds intrude. The grounds also hold potential for historic archaeology.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Alexander Crawford (builder of the 1829 Power Courthouse for George Power)","architectural_style":"Early Republic - Federal; Late Victorian - Queen Anne","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as excellently maintained and essentially unchanged; the house, outbuildings and cemetery are still in domestic and agricultural use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:35.547148-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/10/8940/28894010/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/89000341.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000341/0daf236c4b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000341/0daf236c4b-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Power_Farmstead_driveway.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Power_Farmstead_driveway.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28894010","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Farmstead","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20709587"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/sangamon-county/power-farmstead-89000341/"}