Hodges, Eugene Wilson, Farm

Built about 1908 by Eugene Wilson Hodges, a farmer in the Crab Orchard Township area of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, the farmhouse is a three-bay frame I-house with two parallel rear ells. Hodges reportedly built much of it himself using salvaged materials. Its triple-A roof is covered in patterned slate shingles, and a wraparound porch with slender wooden Doric columns gives it a vernacular Colonial Revival character. The farmstead also includes frame granaries and chicken coops from about 1930, a hip-roofed wellhouse from about 1908, a barn and two concrete silos from about 1935, and a tenant house. Its listing rests on the house as a representative early 20th-century farmhouse, on the outbuildings as examples of traditional and newer farm building types, and on the farm's record as a middle-class operation. Hodges died in 1943, and the farmland remains largely intact as a working landscape of pasture, cropland and woods.