{"nrhp_refnum":"91001907","name":"Speed Farm","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"W side NC 1436 between NC 1432 and NC 1434","address_restricted":false,"city":"Gupton","county":"Franklin County","state":"NC","lat":36.185112095500045,"lon":-78.19215694911696,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-12-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A roughly 600-acre working farm district in rural northeastern Franklin County, North Carolina, near Gupton, centered on a ca. 1847 farmhouse and a large agricultural complex west of SR 1436.","why_significant":"The farm has been owned by three generations of the Speed family since 1857 and holds domestic and agricultural buildings from the antebellum period through the mid-twentieth century. Its heavy-timber barn, tobacco barns, tenant house and other outbuildings reflect the changes in North Carolina farming, from slave-based agriculture to tenant farming and tobacco price supports.","narrative":"Speed Farm covers about 600 acres of rolling fields, pasture and pine woods in northeastern Franklin County, North Carolina. Its buildings sit in two groups on the west side of SR 1436: a domestic compound and a larger agricultural compound. The main house was built around 1847, probably for Archibald Taylor, as a one-and-a-half-story dwelling. Robert Alexander Speed bought the farm in 1857, and his son Henry Plummer Speed raised the house to two full stories in 1900. Nearby are a kitchen, smoke house and milk house of the same period, along with a small cemetery. The farm complex includes a heavy-timber barn from the 1840s or 1850s, corn cribs, a granary, tobacco barns, a ram tower and a 1930s tenant house. The farm has stayed with one family for three generations and records the shift from slave-based agriculture to tenant farming, the Depression and tobacco price supports, which is why it was listed as a historic district.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Archibald Taylor (presumed builder of the ca. 1847 house); Henry Plummer Speed (1900 remodelling)","architectural_style":"No Style; Other: I-House","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still a working farm producing hay, grains, livestock, and tobacco, with the house in domestic use; some outbuildings are used for storage.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:50.439791-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/94/7202/47720294/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/91001907.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720294","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24436219"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/franklin-county/speed-farm-91001907/"}