{"nrhp_refnum":"91001412","name":"Kindley, Wilson, Farm and Kindley Mine","other_names":["Kindley,Wilson,House","Kindley"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"NC 1408, E side, 1 mi. N of US 64","address_restricted":false,"city":"Asheboro","county":"Randolph County","state":"NC","lat":35.74721156000004,"lon":-79.9698119495241,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1992-06-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A farmstead with a gold mine in Tabernacle Township, west central Randolph County, North Carolina, comprising a ca. 1873 two-story brick vernacular Greek Revival farmhouse, a stone-lined well, outbuildings, old roadbeds, and a late nineteenth century gold mining site with placer pits and a mine tunnel on roughly forty-three acres.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the farmhouse is a rare Randolph County example of a brick I-house in late Greek Revival style, with a post-bellum date and few comparable domestic brick buildings in the county. It argues the Kindley Mine is a surviving example of small farm-based gold mining in the nineteenth century Piedmont, with its placer pits, tunnel and relationship to the farm still visible.","narrative":"Built about 1873 in Tabernacle Township, the Wilson Kindley House is a two-story, single-pile, center-hall brick farmhouse set on a farm in the western hills of Randolph County. Family tradition holds that Wilson Kindley made the bricks himself. The house has six-over-six sash windows, wide side-lighted entrances with two-panel doors, and deep eaves with exposed rafter ends. The nomination regards it as a rare example of a brick I-house in the county, and one of very few brick houses built there after the Civil War. Nearby, a mine dug from the farm's clay pits produced gold in the 1870s and 1880s. It has placer pits and a tunnel about 125 feet long, and it was listed in an 1883 directory and was still operating in 1897. The farm and mine together show how farmers in the Piedmont also worked gold deposits.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1873-1897","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.755427-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/8/7219/47721908/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/91001412.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91001412/c393a25c39-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91001412/c393a25c39-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"JERRYE &amp; ROY KLOTZ, M.D.","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WILSON_KINDLEY_FARM_AND_KINDLEY_MINE;_ASHEBORO_RANDOLPH_COUNTY_NC.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">JERRYE &amp;amp; ROY KLOTZ, M.D.</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WILSON_KINDLEY_FARM_AND_KINDLEY_MINE;_ASHEBORO_RANDOLPH_COUNTY_NC.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721908","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson_Kindley_Farm_and_Kindley_Mine","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19864486"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/randolph-county/kindley-wilson-farm-and-kindley-mine-91001412/"}