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The farm was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 12, 2009 and the listing was announced as the featured listing in the National Park Service's weekly list of August 21, 2009. [5] Currently the main house of the Roswell and Elizabeth Garst Farmstead Historic District is the office for the Whiterock Conservancy.
Since Garst's death, his farmstead has been preserved; in 2009, it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places under the title of "Roswell and Elizabeth Garst Farmstead Historic District." The farm was seen as historically significant because of its importance in general American history and because of its place as Garst's home. [3] [4]
The main office of Whiterock Conservancy is the historic Roswell and Elizabeth Garst Farmstead, which is also an active bed and breakfast and part of the Whiterock Resort. In 1997, the farm house and surrounding lands became an agritourism destination [4] which later became the Whiterock Resort in 2007. [5]
As the Des Moines Register marks its 175th year, today's historic front page is from Sept. 22, 1959: Soviet premier lands in Des Moines for farm visit
Roswell and Elizabeth Garst Farmstead Historic District; Geode State Park, Civilian Conservation Corps Area; Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District; Glenwood Archeological District; Goddard Bungalow Court Historic District; Gordon–Van Tine Company Historic District; Grand Avenue Historic Commercial District
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, left, and Roswell Garst, his farmer-businessman host in 1959, talk outside the Hotel Fort Des Moines before a tour of Garst's farm near Coon Rapids.
Brugjeld-Peterson Family Farmstead District: April 6, 2000 2349 450th Ave. ... Roswell and Elizabeth Garst Farmstead Historic District: August 12, 2009
Roswell and Elizabeth Garst Farmstead Historic District; S. Springbrook State Park This page was last edited on 1 November 2016, at 03:17 (UTC). ...