{"nrhp_refnum":"99000912","name":"Gilmore-Patterson Farm","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"20337 NC 87 W","address_restricted":false,"city":"St. Paul's","county":"Bladen County","state":"NC","lat":34.80082292950004,"lon":-78.8448283190001,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1999-07-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 120-acre working farm near Duart and St. Paul's in western Bladen County, North Carolina, with a c. 1872 frame farmhouse (updated c. 1890) and a collection of agricultural outbuildings, tenant houses, and field landscape.","why_significant":"The farm is argued to be a rare example of a southeastern North Carolina farm continuously owned and cultivated by one family since the eighteenth century, illustrating the evolution of local agricultural practices (Criterion A). It also has architectural value for its late Greek Revival house updated in a modified Queen Anne style and its intact late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century outbuildings (Criterion C).","narrative":"Located in western Bladen County near Duart and St. Paul's, this 120-acre farm is a working agricultural complex that has stayed in one family since the eighteenth century. Its centerpiece is a one-story frame farmhouse built around 1872 in late Greek Revival form and updated about 1890 with Queen Anne features, including a gabled front addition and a three-sided bay. Around it stand a smokehouse, an outhouse, a former post office, a mule stable dating to about 1868, log and frame tobacco barns, a granary, a garage and two tenant houses. Fields, pastures, woods and hog lots remain in use much as they were historically, and a trace of the Virginia and Carolina South Railroad bed crosses the land. The property was listed for its place in local agricultural history, from Scottish settlement and Daniel Patterson's 1868 acquisition through the era of cotton, tenant farming and tobacco, and for its intact collection of period buildings.","period_of_significance":"c. 1868-1949","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Other: Greek Revival-influenced; Other: Queen Anne-influenced","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The form lists the current function of the dwelling as vacant/not in use, while the farm remains a working farm with fields, hog lots and outbuildings still in agricultural use.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:53.769671-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/73/7190/47719073/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/99000912.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719073","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilmore%E2%80%93Patterson_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18150786"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/bladen-county/gilmore-patterson-farm-99000912/"}