Isenhour, Daniel, House and Farm

This 73-acre farm near Gold Hill in northeast Cabarrus County centers on a weatherboarded two-story house built around 1843 for Daniel Isenhour, a farmer and cabinetmaker. The house has a Federal-Greek Revival character, with nine-over-six sash, center-hall plan, original pine floors and flush-sheathed walls. In the last quarter of the nineteenth century a one-story rear ell was added and bracketed Italianate eaves and porches updated its look. The grounds hold a smoke house, a well shed, several farm outbuildings and a double-pen log barn, set among pastures, maples, pear and fruit trees, and about forty acres of woodland. Isenhour trained his son in cabinetmaking, and the property reflects the rural craftsman who worked a trade while farming modestly. Three generations of the family lived here until 1963. The house was being restored when it was documented, with deteriorated weatherboards replaced in kind and the foundation stabilized.