{"nrhp_refnum":"90000664","name":"Moore, Alexander, Farm","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"SR 2646 0.5 mi. NW of SR 1004 jct.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Catawba","county":"Catawba County","state":"NC","lat":35.70143889050004,"lon":-81.00030803380211,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-04-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A farmstead district of about 27 acres on the Catawba River/Lake Norman in eastern Catawba County, North Carolina, centered on an 1843 two-story frame farmhouse built by Alexander Moore, with log and frame outbuildings.","why_significant":"The farm is an intact nineteenth century piedmont farmstead that has stayed in the Moore family for five generations, nearly 150 years. The house is a typical vernacular late Federal farmhouse of antebellum Catawba County, and the log and frame outbuildings represent rural farm buildings of the county. It also illustrates the self-sufficient family farm that underpinned the county's economy.","narrative":"This farmstead on the south bank of the Catawba River, now part of Lake Norman, centers on a two-story frame house dated 1843 by an inscription on its brick chimney. Alexander Moore, who bought 320 acres in 1831, built the house in a plain vernacular style with minimal late Federal details. Surviving outbuildings include a log wagon shed, a log smokehouse, a mid-nineteenth century log barn with half-dovetail notching, and a large frame barn from around 1900. The property has shrunk from the original tract to about 27 acres, but it still reads as a nineteenth century piedmont farm. In 1860 Moore raised corn, wheat, cotton, hay and a range of other crops and livestock, showing the self-sufficient character of local farming. The farm passed through five generations of the family, which supports its listing for both agricultural history and architecture.","period_of_significance":"1843-1939","architect_builder":"Unknown (house built by Alexander Moore)","architectural_style":"Vernacular late Federal","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The house is occupied by a descendant of the original builder, who continues light farming. The house has been altered inside and out, and several early outbuildings have been lost.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:49.619681-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/18/7174/47717418/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/90000664.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717418","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Moore_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18154609"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/catawba-county/moore-alexander-farm-90000664/"}