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Photograph of Norvall Hunter Farm
Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Norvall Hunter Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1914.

From the record

One of 33 National Register listings published here for Champaign County · listed in 1985 · category: Building.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • Listed as. Hunter, Norvall, Farm - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. S. Main St., Mechanicsburg
  • When was it listed? August 1985
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Mechanicsburg MRA
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture, Italianate architecture, Renaissance Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 85001883 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Then and now

1914 to 1992

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Norvall Hunter Farm, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet covering Norvall Hunter Farm, surveyed 1914

Maps showing this location

9 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Hamer's General Store0.2 miles1985
Mechanicsburg Commercial Historic District0.3 miles1985
Magruder Building0.3 miles1985
Second Baptist Church0.3 miles1985
Mechanicsburg Baptist Church0.3 miles1985
Village Hobby Shop0.3 miles1985

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 85001883 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Champaign CountyAll 33 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.