{"nrhp_refnum":"90001036","name":"Rock Barn Farm","other_names":["Hoke--Roseman Farm"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"W side of SR 1709, .4 mi. N of jct. with SR 1715","address_restricted":false,"city":"Claremont","county":"Catawba County","state":"NC","lat":35.74244628500006,"lon":-81.16074722544678,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-07-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A nineteenth-century farmstead on Rock Barn Road in north Catawba County, North Carolina, consisting of a two-story frame house, a two-story stone bank barn, and several outbuildings. The house was probably built shortly after the Civil War, and the barn is attributed to Frederick Hoke in the 1820s.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that the stone bank barn is a rare example of stone construction in the western piedmont and one of only four load-bearing rock structures known in the county before 1900. It also presents the Greek Revival farmhouse as a fine example of postbellum county house design and the complex as a surviving group of agricultural buildings tied to the county's German-American farming heritage.","narrative":"Along Lyle Creek in north Catawba County, the Rock Barn Farm is a nineteenth-century farmstead built around a large two-story stone bank barn. Frederick Hoke, a Lincoln County justice of the peace, is credited with building the barn in the 1820s, and the county's first court chairman, he held the plantation until his death in 1844. Its stone walls are unusual for the western piedmont, and the nomination counts it among only four load-bearing rock structures known in Catawba County before 1900. After the Civil War, Hoke's son-in-law Daniel Roseman, a farmer, merchant and mill owner, built a Greek Revival frame house nearby. The house has a distinctive double-entrance plan and finely detailed interior woodwork. Several log and frame outbuildings, including a corn crib and granary, stand in the same complex. The site is listed for its agricultural value and its architecture.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1822-1939","architect_builder":"Frederick Hoke (builder of the rock barn); Daniel Roseman (house, probably built soon after the Civil War)","architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"In use as a functioning farm; the rock barn lost its east wall and part of its south wall in a flood around 1933-1934 and was rebuilt with a lightweight frame and sheet metal on those sections.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.268555-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/10/7174/47717410/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/90001036.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717410","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Barn_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18157461"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/catawba-county/rock-barn-farm-90001036/"}