Keever-Cansler Farm
The National Park Service has not published a boundary polygon for this district; the map shows the listed properties inside it and the district's reference point.
Why it's listed
Keever-Cansler Farm in southern Catawba County, near Blackburn, centers on a two-story brick farmhouse built around 1879 by Daniel Keever. The three-bay house has a center-hall plan, a gable roof, shoulder chimneys and a one-story rear ell. Its most distinctive feature is the elaborate corbelled brick cornice, which wraps the house and forms pediments at the gables, matched by corbelled chimney caps. Behind the house stand a row of farm buildings, including a log barn, frame barn, granary, smokehouse and woodshed, chicken coop, tractor shed and outhouse, plus a later garage and well house. Keever sold the farm in 1891 to R.B. McClured, and it was auctioned in 1910 to John Jacob Cansler, whose son George Lester Cansler farmed it afterward. The property was listed for its fine masonry, as one of the county's earliest brick houses, and for its typical small-farm outbuildings from about 1879 to 1939.
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| Period of significance | ca. 1879-1939 |
|---|---|
| Styles | Vernacular "I" house |
| Areas of significance | Agriculture, Architecture |
| Acreage | 4.9 |
| Boundary source | not published |
| Full listing page | Keever-Cansler Farm (property record) |
What listing means for this property
This is a historic district. Buildings within its boundary are either contributing (they add to the district's significance) or non-contributing. Owners of contributing income-producing buildings can claim the 20% federal rehabilitation tax credit; homeowners should look at state credits. National Register districts impose no design review by themselves; a local historic district ordinance, if one exists, does (the difference explained).
General information, not legal or tax advice. Rules change; confirm with your State Historic Preservation Office or a qualified adviser.