{"nrhp_refnum":"91001377","name":"Ivy Burne","other_names":["Hodges,John Murchison,Sr.,House"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"NC 217, E side 0.4 mi. S of jct. with NC 2027","address_restricted":false,"city":"Linden","county":"Harnett County","state":"NC","lat":35.265946005000046,"lon":-78.73331247913575,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-09-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Education","Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Ivy Burne is a 130-acre farm district near Linden in southern Harnett County, North Carolina, with a two-story frame Italianate/Queen Anne farmhouse built in stages between 1872 and 1910 and seven outbuildings, set beside the Little River.","why_significant":"The nomination ties the property to John Murchison Hodges, Sr. (1848-1933), a county commissioners chairman and long-serving chairman of the county board of education who pushed school reform. It also presents the house as a well-preserved vernacular blend of I-house form, Italianate porch treatment, Queen Anne detailing and a Classical Revival kitchen addition. The outbuilding group is described as the most complete and well-preserved found in the county.","narrative":"Ivy Burne is a 130-acre farm on the north bank of the Little River in southern Harnett County, North Carolina. A two-story frame farmhouse sits in a grove of mature oaks and magnolias. John Murchison Hodges, Sr. began it around the time of his 1872 marriage as a one-story, L-shaped dwelling facing an older road. In the late 1880s it gained a second floor and turned to face the relocated road, and further additions followed through 1910, including a kitchen wing. The result is a vernacular mix of I-house form, Italianate porch columns, Queen Anne shingle work and Classical Revival touches. Behind the house stand outbuildings dating from about 1872 to 1930, among them a board-and-batten kitchen, a plank smokehouse, log corn crib and tobacco barns. Hodges served as chairman of the county commissioners and, from 1909 to 1925, of the board of education, which expanded and professionalized county schools. The farm and its intact outbuildings reflect his life and local rural architecture.","period_of_significance":"1872-1933","architect_builder":"Hodges, John Murchison, Sr. (builder of the house in stages); architect unknown","architectural_style":"Italianate; Queen Anne (vernacular Italianate/Queen Anne farmhouse)","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Continuously occupied by family members; still a farm with house, outbuildings and fields in use, though the form describes a gravel pit on a separate 22.5-acre tract that is excluded.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:50.373104-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/38/7207/47720738/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/91001377.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720738","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_Burne","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19462554"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/harnett-county/ivy-burne-91001377/"}