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Caspar Getman Farmstead is a historic home and related farm outbuildings located near Stone Arabia in Montgomery County, New York. It includes the main house and ell, two lateral-entry English barns, a New World Dutch barn (c. 1790), limestone smokehouse (c. 1850), and former chicken coop (c. 1920). The house has a two-story main block, five by ...
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).
It includes a variety of vernacular stone farmhouses, bank barns, farm outbuildings, a stone bridge, two mill races, and a small family graveyard. Notable properties include the William Mercer Farm, Samuel Starr Farm, George Jefferis Farm, Thomas Price Farm, Spackman's Mill site, Hannum Mill site, and Enoch Pearson Farm.
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.
A four-ox-team plough, circa 1330. The ploughman is using a mouldboard plough to cut through the heavy soils. A team could plough about one acre (0.4 ha) per day. The typical planting scheme in a three-field system was that barley, oats, or legumes would be planted in one field in spring, wheat or rye in the second field in the fall and the third field would be left fallow.
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This historic property includes a large barn, a pig barn (c. 1872), a carriage house (c. 1872), a chicken coop (c. 1872), a grain silo, and a milk house.The main barn, known as the Star Barn, was built in 1872, and is a five-bay, Gothic Revival-style frame building.