{"nrhp_refnum":"98000706","name":"Blakeney, James A., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"W side NC 3629, .5 mi S of jct NC 3626","address_restricted":false,"city":"Providence","county":"Mecklenburg County","state":"NC","lat":35.040180305000035,"lon":-80.81779510599995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1998-06-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame farmhouse built about 1905-1906 on a wooded 1.7-acre tract in southern Mecklenburg County near Providence, North Carolina, with a contributing well house and a non-contributing chicken house.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is an extremely rare, largely intact early twentieth-century farmhouse in Mecklenburg County. It shows conservative Colonial Revival design typical of homes on prosperous cotton farms, and keeps its original plan, finishes and mantels. Its wooded setting still suggests the agrarian life that produced it despite surrounding suburban growth.","narrative":"Built about 1905-1906 for farmer James Albert Blakeney and his wife Margaret Martin, this two-story weatherboard farmhouse sits on a wooded 1.7-acre lot in southern Mecklenburg County. A fire destroyed the family's earlier one-story home, and this house replaced it on the same site. The Blakeney farm grew to about 230 acres and produced cotton as its main cash crop, along with corn, small grains and livestock. The house has a boxy form, a slate-tiled cross-gable roof, two-over-two windows and a wraparound porch with sixteen Doric columns. Inside, center halls, pine wainscoting, a closed-string staircase, five-panel doors and mantels in all eight principal rooms remain original. A contemporary well house also contributes to the property. Few farmhouses of this type survive in the county, and suburban development now surrounds the tract. The house was listed for its architecture, as an intact example of the substantial Colonial Revival farmhouses built on successful local farms around the turn of the twentieth century.","period_of_significance":"1905-1906","architect_builder":"unknown","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Restoration of the house was in progress in 1997 after the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Landmarks Commission acquired the house lot. The chicken house is partly hidden by overgrowth and a nearby barn is deteriorated but stable.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:48.684006-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/25/7182/47718225/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/98000706.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98000706/04ac16929c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98000706/04ac16929c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 4.0","author":"Dclemens1971","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_A._Blakeney_House_01.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Dclemens1971</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_A._Blakeney_House_01.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718225","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._Blakeney_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19460566"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/mecklenburg-county/blakeney-james-a-house-98000706/"}