{"nrhp_refnum":"91000077","name":"Hodges, Eugene Wilson, Farm","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"2900 Rocky River Church Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Charlotte","county":"Mecklenburg County","state":"NC","lat":35.27048140800005,"lon":-80.70483610135034,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-02-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A farmstead of about 187 acres northeast of Charlotte in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, centred on a ca. 1908 three-bay frame I-house and a complex of outbuildings, barns, granaries, silos and farmland. It lies on both sides of Rocky River Church Road in the Crab Orchard Township area.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the farmhouse is an early 20th-century interpretation of the traditional I-house with vernacular Colonial Revival elements, built largely by its owner. It argues the contributing outbuildings, including gambrel-roofed granaries and a wellhouse, represent traditional and popular farm building types, and that the farm represents a middle-class farming operation in the county in the early 20th century.","narrative":"Built about 1908 by Eugene Wilson Hodges, a farmer in the Crab Orchard Township area of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, the farmhouse is a three-bay frame I-house with two parallel rear ells. Hodges reportedly built much of it himself using salvaged materials. Its triple-A roof is covered in patterned slate shingles, and a wraparound porch with slender wooden Doric columns gives it a vernacular Colonial Revival character. The farmstead also includes frame granaries and chicken coops from about 1930, a hip-roofed wellhouse from about 1908, a barn and two concrete silos from about 1935, and a tenant house. Its listing rests on the house as a representative early 20th-century farmhouse, on the outbuildings as examples of traditional and newer farm building types, and on the farm's record as a middle-class operation. Hodges died in 1943, and the farmland remains largely intact as a working landscape of pasture, cropland and woods.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1908-1939","architect_builder":"Hodges, Eugene Wilson / builder","architectural_style":"vernacular Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The farm remains a working farm; the house is occupied by a family member, and the document describes some outbuildings as vacant or in use for storage.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.0997-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/48/7182/47718248/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/91000077.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718248","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Wilson_Hodges_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19462344"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/mecklenburg-county/hodges-eugene-wilson-farm-91000077/"}