{"nrhp_refnum":"98001015","name":"Allcorn-Kokemoor Farmstead","other_names":["Allcorn House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Independence Rd., 5 mi. N of Brenham","address_restricted":false,"city":"Brenham","county":"Washington County","state":"TX","lat":30.223147753000063,"lon":-96.38104964252366,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1998-08-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A rural farmstead on Independence Road about 3.5 miles north of Brenham, Washington County, Texas, centered on a two-story hall-and-parlor farmhouse built in the mid-1840s with later additions and outbuildings, on a 25-acre remnant of the original property.","why_significant":"The farmstead is argued to be a rare surviving example of a farm that developed from early Anglo settlement in Washington County through the German immigration of the 1870s. The house reflects vernacular building traditions of the 1840s, and its wings and outbuildings show changing agricultural methods and household needs over about 100 years. It is nominated at the local level under Criteria A (Agriculture) and C (Architecture).","narrative":"Along Independence Road, about 3.5 miles north of Brenham, a 25-acre farmstead preserves a house and working buildings spanning roughly a century of farm life. The core is a two-story, four-room hall-and-parlor house built in the mid-1840s by Thomas Jefferson Allcorn, one of Stephen F. Austin's original colonists. Its hand-hewn, braced-frame construction and simple cedar and pine finishes reflect vernacular building of the period. After German immigrants arrived in the 1870s, the Kokemoor family enlarged the house with one-story kitchen and bedroom wings, added a metal roof after a 1930s fire, and built a barn, garage, sheds, wells and a brick cistern. The property was once part of a far larger holding and now serves as a reminder of how antebellum plantations broke into smaller farms. The house shows deterioration but remains structurally sound, and rehabilitation as a bed-and-breakfast inn is under way.","period_of_significance":"c. 1845 - 1948","architect_builder":"unknown","architectural_style":"Other: hall and parlor house; No Style","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Listed function is vacant/not in use; the house is in a state of deterioration but structurally sound, and is being rehabilitated for use as a bed-and-breakfast inn.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:23.448032-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/4/9739/40973904/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/98001015.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40973904","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109999547"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/washington-county/allcorn-kokemoor-farmstead-98001015/"}