{"nrhp_refnum":"92000138","name":"Baker, J. T., Farmstead","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1.2 mi. N of Blum between TX 174 and the Nolan R.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Blum","county":"Hill County","state":"TX","lat":32.15834288600007,"lon":-97.38866641313074,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1992-03-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 100-acre cotton farmstead about 1.2 miles north of Blum in Hill County, Texas, centered on a board-and-batten frame house begun around 1881, a corn crib, archeological deposits and a bisecting 1881 railway grade.","why_significant":"The farmstead is argued to be an undisturbed, largely intact central Texas cotton farm. Its vernacular wood dwelling represents a type of rural house rarely preserved in the region (Criterion C, Architecture). Its undisturbed trash dumps, barnyard and yard deposits may yield information on daily rural life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries (Criterion D, Archeology).","narrative":"About 1.2 miles north of Blum, Texas, this 100-acre farmstead preserves the setting of a central Texas cotton raiser. Its main building is a one-story board-and-batten house that began around 1881 as a single-room cabin with a limestone chimney. Bedroom, kitchen and dining additions were made before 1900, and a hallway and parlor/bedroom were added about 1902 after John Thomas Baker bought the farm and moved in with his large family. Tenant families later lived there until about 1950. A small corn crib, barnyard remains, trash dumps and the abandoned 1881 Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe railway grade, with its arched limestone and brick culvert, cross the property. The house is a rare surviving example of inexpensive farm housing in the region, and the undisturbed debris around the buildings may reveal details of everyday rural life from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.","period_of_significance":"1881-1941","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Other/vernacular: one-room cabin that evolved into an L-plan","criteria":["C","D"],"status_note":"The house was rehabilitated in 1988-89 and survives in remarkably original condition. The farmstead remains part of a larger operating farm, and the corn crib is still used for farm storage.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:21.079273-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/97/9725/40972597/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/92000138.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40972597","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109999805"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/hill-county/baker-j-t-farmstead-92000138/"}