{"nrhp_refnum":"95000173","name":"Allison Woods","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly, area E and S of US 21 surrounding the S. Yadkin R.,N to NC 2156","address_restricted":false,"city":"Statesville","county":"Iredell County","state":"NC","lat":35.89244801950005,"lon":-80.81987852494105,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1995-03-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Black","Landscape Architecture","Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Allison Woods is a rural gentleman's farm and recreational retreat of about 298 acres northeast of Statesville in Iredell County, North Carolina, set along the South Yadkin River. It was developed by William Locke Allison between about 1926 and 1939 and includes two lakes, stone and brick buildings, and farm landscape.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the property is important to the history of agriculture, architecture, and landscape architecture in Iredell County and North Carolina. It is described as one of very few surviving examples of an interwar gentleman's farm in the state, and its stone and brick buildings show consistent craftsmanship by local stone mason Baldy Franklin Guy.","narrative":"Allison Woods is a gentleman's farm and rural retreat of about 298 acres northeast of Statesville, North Carolina, on the South Yadkin River. William Locke Allison, a former railroad engineer and Baldwin Locomotive Works vice-president, developed it between about 1926 and 1939 on land held by his family since the late eighteenth century. The property centres on two man-made lakes, the upper lake formed by impounding an old tannery spring and the lower lake completed in the early 1930s. Stone buildings by local mason Baldy Franklin Guy include a springhouse, a mill house, and an ice and party house, and a brick bungalow built in 1928-1929 by Statesville contractor L. Boyer Tomlinson housed the farm manager. The estate also had an orchard of about twenty acres, cultivated fields, and a herd of livestock. It is valued as one of very few surviving interwar gentleman's farms of its kind in North Carolina, and its buildings and landscape retain much of their original character.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1926-1941","architect_builder":"Tomlinson, L. Boyer (builder); Guy, Baldy Franklin (builder/stone mason)","architectural_style":"Bungalow/Craftsman","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The farm manager's residence has been continuously occupied and kept in good repair; the other buildings have been kept water-tight; the Allison Woods Foundation leases the property for conservation and educational use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.490187-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/14/7209/47720914/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/95000173.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720914","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allison_Woods","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19460165"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/iredell-county/allison-woods-95000173/"}