1912 Homestead
Outbuildings
There are numerous outbuilding of varying sizes and purposes on the property. There is a well house, an old outhouse, a Cleary garage, a Quonset, an old dairy, a barn, disrepaired birthing pens, a corral and accompanying loafing shed, a pig pen, and a wood, hay, and fencing sheds.
Wellhouse, Cleary Garage, Dairy, Barn, and Quonset
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The well house is located between the main house and garage and contains all of the equipment and mechanisms to bring water out of the property’s well and distribute it out to all of the buildings, water hydrants, and sprinklers. The Cleary building is a three car garage with a work shop in the back and additional storage space that totals to ---- square feet.
The dairy building was used back when the property operated as a dairy farm and is divided into three rooms with one nonfunctioning, cold storage room. The old milking stations inside one room were partially destroyed at some point, but several remnants of the business can still be found around. The building current serves as a storage area for some planting and gardening supplies and the largest area is now used for making soaps and candles.
The red barn was likely built around the time the property was originally homesteaded and has since been added on to. It has a wooden main floor, four dirt stalls, three concrete stalls and a tack room. Storage for the old milking operation and a shower room were later added on off of the main structure. At one point, there was a full second level, likely used for hay storage, but it has since been mostly removed. The stalls are used for long term hay storage, chickens, dogs, cats, and their supplies in. An extra wood shed was built on off of the barn which is now used to store wood for the fireplace in the main house.
A Quonset building is used as a storage area for both tools and miscellaneous items as well as housing tractors and some of their attachments. It has a ground level and a second wooden level that was added on after the fact. The second level is used for miscellaneous storage, while all tools and equipment remain on the ground floor. It totals to --- square feet.
Corral, Sheds, and Pens
The horse housing area is composed of a medium sized corral, a loafing shed, and a nearby hay shed. The corral was originally built using all wood for fencing. At some point, likely when the owners were breeding horses, about half of the wooden fence was replaced with metal poles and wire fencing. The loafing shed is a wooden structure with a metal sheet roof and was likely built before the part of the fence was replaced. It is divided into two sections by a metal swinging gate. The larger section is open to the corral and is used as a shelter area for any animals back there. Evidence left on some of the wooden posts suggest that this larger area may have at one point been divided into smaller, individual stalls. The smaller section is used for very short term feed storage to be fed to the animals. The hay shed is used for medium term storage of hay and is built just like the loafing shed only much smaller in size. The hay shed is also were electricity is wired over to from the barn to provide electricity for the immediate area.
A pig pen was recently constructed using metal poles and wire fencing and contains a wooden and metal shelter for the pigs. Established by the one of the previous owners, the fencing shed has collected both wooden and metal fence posts and bars, spools of barbed wire, and pieces of leftover sheets of metal over a number of years. The two dilapidated birthing pens were once used when the homestead was used as a dairy farm. They are located west of the hay shed and are currently in the slow process of being torn down.
