Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Typical configurations include farm buildings used for both livestock and grain/hay storage. The bastle house is an arrangement which places the living quarters above the farm building and, usually, the farm animals. This type of connected farm was common as a defensive arrangement; living quarters were located high above for security reasons.
Van Wie Farmstead, also known as Valley View Farm, is a historic home and related farm outbuildings located near McKinley in Montgomery County, New York.It includes the farmhouse, a carriage house, a large multi-block barn (1874 and later), a slat sided hay barn, a Butler grain bin (c. 1950), pole barn (c. 1950), and a hop barn (c. 1884).
The district includes 107 contributing buildings, 4 contributing sites, and 18 contributing structures in the village of Gardenville and surrounding rural areas. They include a variety of residential and commercial buildings and related farm outbuildings and structures, some of which are representative of the vernacular Georgian and Italianate ...
His plan is the only known plan that shows the outline and dimensions of the kitchen garden and positions it in relation to the house. The plan shows a rectangular garden divided internally into 16 individual beds with what appear to be paths running in a grid pattern through it.
Secondly, there are the egregiously oversized vent stacks. Finally, there is the Serlian motif attic vent. In many ways the design is a caricature rather than an example of the classic midwestern barn. It stands out among the vast stock of early twentieth century farm outbuildings in Louisiana because it was styled for visual effect.
The c.1880 farmhouse was demolished in 2013, but several farm outbuildings remain. PN No. 1, 3-5, 7-8 are tenant farms turned over to the Endowment in 2007. PN No. 6 field acreage became part of PN No.4 when the farmstead buildings were demolished to make room for the WILL AM/FM/TV transmitter tower and equipment building in 1966.
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!
Noah Ogle's farm originally consisted of 400 acres (160 ha), although by the early 20th century he had subdivided his land among his children, and retained only 150 acres (61 ha). These last 150 acres (0.61 km 2) comprise the bulk of the Bud Ogle Farm historic district. [1] Ogle's cabin and outbuildings were built in the late 1880s and early 1890s.