{"nrhp_refnum":"93000729","name":"McIver, John D., Farm","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2007 Windmill Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Sanford","county":"Lee County","state":"NC","lat":35.493930413000044,"lon":-79.20804228899993,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1993-08-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A farm complex at 2007 Windmill Drive in Sanford, Lee County, North Carolina, centered on a two-story frame I-house built about 1855 and surrounded by historic outbuildings and structures on 6.27 acres.","why_significant":"The farm is cited as one of the more intact nineteenth-century residential and agricultural complexes in Lee County and one of the few preserving antebellum farm buildings. Its vernacular Greek Revival farmhouse has a notable enclosed stair arrangement. Its outbuildings include a brownstone meat house and the county's oldest identified corn crib, built of diamond-notched, straight-sawn timbers.","narrative":"Built about 1855 for John Dalrymple McIver, this farm in Sanford, North Carolina, is now surrounded by a suburban subdivision but still holds a core of nineteenth-century buildings. The centerpiece is a two-story, weatherboarded frame I-house with a hall-parlor plan, vernacular Greek Revival woodwork, brick end chimneys and an enclosed back stair rising from a rear shed room. Later owners added one-story wings, a basement and a swimming pool, and the original front porch was removed, though its parts are stored on the property. Surviving farm structures include a brownstone meat house, a well with an early stone curb, a carriage house, remnants of an iron fence, and a corn crib of diamond-notched, straight-sawn timbers that is the oldest identified in Lee County. The complex was listed for its architecture, as one of the best-preserved antebellum farm groups in the county, with significance at the local level.","period_of_significance":"Second half of the 19th century","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Private property still used as a single dwelling, with outbuildings used for storage. The farmhouse has extensive mid- and late-twentieth-century additions.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:50.943252-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/21/7181/47718121/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/93000729.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000729/bca11fa5bd-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000729/bca11fa5bd-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JOHN_D._McIVER_FARM;_LEE_COUNTY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerrye &amp;amp; Roy Klotz, MD</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JOHN_D._McIVER_FARM;_LEE_COUNTY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718121","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._McIver_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19987047"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/lee-county/mciver-john-d-farm-93000729/"}