{"nrhp_refnum":"89002352","name":"Jones-Johnson-Ballentine Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"SR 1301--522 Sunset Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fuquay-Varina","county":"Wake County","state":"NC","lat":35.61059375000005,"lon":-78.77224729645513,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-01-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 338-acre rural historic district in southern Wake County, northeast of Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina, on both sides of Sunset Lake Road and bisected by Terrible Creek. It comprises two farm complexes, the Johnson Farm and the Ballentine Farm, with houses, outbuildings, a well, an ice house, and a family cemetery.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district represents the development of agriculture in Wake County from the late eighteenth century to the beginning of the Second World War, and that its buildings represent regional housing types and farm buildings. It is also significant for its link to the standardized house-plan industry, through a southern branch of Standard Homes Company, and for the rise of dairy farming in Wake County. The rural landscape is described as increasingly rare as the county urbanizes.","narrative":"Two farm complexes sit on either side of Sunset Lake Road in southern Wake County, bisected by Terrible Creek, on land granted to Etheldred Jones in 1778. Jones, a Revolutionary War veteran, built a hall-and-parlor house around 1800 that survives with later alterations. The Johnson family's house was remodeled in neo-Classical Revival style around 1905 over a mid-nineteenth-century I-house. The Ballentine farm includes a dairy barn modeled on plans from Radford's 1908 pattern book, and a complete dairy operation begun in the 1920s. In 1930 a southern branch of Standard Homes Company, a Washington, D.C. house-plan business, was established on the Johnson farm. The property is valued for its intact cluster of farm buildings and its record of Wake County dairying and the mail-order house-plan trade, and for its family ownership across six generations.","period_of_significance":"C. 1800-1939","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Neo-Classical Revival; Vernacular Victorian; Folk Architecture","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:40.73032-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/9/7225/47722509/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/89002352.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722509","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jones%E2%80%93Johnson%E2%80%93Ballentine_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20639281"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wake-county/jones-johnson-ballentine-historic-district-89002352/"}