{"nrhp_refnum":"90000859","name":"Sharpe-Gentry Farm","other_names":["Sharpe,John O.,Farm"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Jct. of NC 10 and SR 1137","address_restricted":false,"city":"Propst Crossroads","county":"Catawba County","state":"NC","lat":35.62819096250004,"lon":-81.37244151066159,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-06-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A early twentieth-century farmstead in southwest Catawba County near Propst Crossroads, North Carolina, centered on a circa 1903 Queen Anne farmhouse with a frame barn, granary, garage and smaller outbuildings. The house was built by John O. Sharpe.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the farm is one of the most intact twentieth-century farmsteads in Catawba County and a representative example of a turn-of-the-century agricultural unit. It cites the Queen Anne house with its turned-post veranda and the associated outbuildings as significant for their architecture, and the farm's agricultural use as significant under its historic context.","narrative":"Set on N.C. Highway 10 in southwest Catawba County near Propst Crossroads, the Sharpe-Gentry Farm centers on a one-and-one-half story hip-roofed frame house built circa 1903 for John O. Sharpe, a small farmer and lumberman. Its wrap-around veranda, with turned posts and balusters, is the most decorative feature of an otherwise plain Queen Anne style cottage. The farmstead includes a frame barn, granary, garage, engine house and sheds, most of which date from the house's early years. John W. and Lucille Gentry bought the farm in 1919 for $5,000 and moved into the house in 1923. Lucille Gentry ran a small dairy here and kept the buildings in use while her husband worked as a crane operator. The property is regarded as one of the most intact early twentieth-century farmsteads in the county, with its house, outbuildings and surrounding fields still reflecting the agricultural life of the period.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1903-1939","architect_builder":"John O. Sharpe (builder of the house)","architectural_style":"Queen Anne","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Largely unaltered; the farm is not fully operational and its fields are farmed by neighboring renters.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.489653-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/16/7174/47717416/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/90000859.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717416","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpe%E2%80%93Gentry_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18157956"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/catawba-county/sharpe-gentry-farm-90000859/"}