{"nrhp_refnum":"90000738","name":"Anthony, Abraham, Farm","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"W side of SR 1008, 0.5 mi. S of jct. with SR 2021","address_restricted":false,"city":"Blackburn","county":"Catawba County","state":"NC","lat":35.574827981000055,"lon":-81.31029436437152,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-05-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 127-acre farmstead near Blackburn in southwest Catawba County, North Carolina, centered on an 1877-78 two-story brick Greek Revival farmhouse and a group of nineteenth and early twentieth century outbuildings built for farmer and shoemaker Abraham Anthony.","why_significant":"The farm is described as the most intact nineteenth century farmstead surviving in Catawba County. It is significant under Criterion A for its link to the county's agricultural development from 1820 to 1939. It meets Criterion C for the brick farmhouse and its outbuildings, including a rare brick cobbler shop with shoemaking equipment still inside. Building receipts and a floor plan survive in family papers, which is unusual for a rural North Carolina house of the period.","narrative":"Near Blackburn in southwest Catawba County, this 127-acre farm centers on a two-story brick house built in 1877-78 for Abraham Anthony, a farmer and shoemaker. The house is L-shaped, with a low hipped roof, six-over-six windows and an unusual pair of front doors that open into the two front rooms. A decorative porch with sawnwork arches was added by 1895. Around the house are sixteen outbuildings of brick, log, frame and concrete, including a brick cobbler shop where Anthony's shoemaking equipment remains, a log granary from 1883, and a log and frame barn from 1888. Surviving building receipts and a floor plan name carpenter Daniel Jarrett and W. W. Wells as workmen. The property is considered notable as the most intact nineteenth century farmstead in the county, reflecting the agricultural life and craft work of a prosperous postbellum farm family. Open fields and woodland preserve its rural setting.","period_of_significance":"1877-1939","architect_builder":"Wells, W. W.; Jarrett, Daniel","architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The house and farm remain in family ownership; the land is used for hay, and a renovated log house on the property was converted to a residence in 1986. Some outbuildings are somewhat deteriorated but generally sound.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:48.923175-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/8/7174/47717408/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/90000738.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000738/29b87def2b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000738/29b87def2b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Upstateherd","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abraham_Anthony_Farm.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Upstateherd</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abraham_Anthony_Farm.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717408","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Anthony_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18148296"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/catawba-county/anthony-abraham-farm-90000738/"}