{"nrhp_refnum":"90000740","name":"Keever-Cansler Farm","other_names":["Keever,Daniel,Farm"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"E side of SR 2024, 0.05 mi. N of jct. with SR 2026","address_restricted":false,"city":"Blackburn","county":"Catawba County","state":"NC","lat":35.58021850200004,"lon":-81.32561531199997,"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 farm district in the Blackburn vicinity of southern Catawba County, North Carolina, centered on a circa 1879 two-story brick farmhouse with a group of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century outbuildings on 4.9 acres. The house was built by Daniel Keever.","why_significant":"The house shows unusually fine brick masonry, including corbelled cornices and chimney caps, found in only a few late nineteenth-century brick farmhouses in the county. It is one of the county's oldest brick houses. The outbuildings and the three families who farmed the land (Keever, McClured, Cansler) illustrate typical small subsistence farming in Catawba County.","narrative":"Keever-Cansler Farm in southern Catawba County, near Blackburn, centers on a two-story brick farmhouse built around 1879 by Daniel Keever. The three-bay house has a center-hall plan, a gable roof, shoulder chimneys and a one-story rear ell. Its most distinctive feature is the elaborate corbelled brick cornice, which wraps the house and forms pediments at the gables, matched by corbelled chimney caps. Behind the house stand a row of farm buildings, including a log barn, frame barn, granary, smokehouse and woodshed, chicken coop, tractor shed and outhouse, plus a later garage and well house. Keever sold the farm in 1891 to R.B. McClured, and it was auctioned in 1910 to John Jacob Cansler, whose son George Lester Cansler farmed it afterward. The property was listed for its fine masonry, as one of the county's earliest brick houses, and for its typical small-farm outbuildings from about 1879 to 1939.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1879-1939","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Vernacular \"I\" house","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The form lists current functions as single dwelling, agricultural field and vacant/not in use; the outbuildings are described as generally good in integrity, and the log barn as somewhat deteriorated but sound.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:50.38778-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/14/7174/47717414/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/90000740.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717414","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keever%E2%80%93Cansler_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18152893"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/catawba-county/keever-cansler-farm-90000740/"}