Prairie View Stock Farm
Prairie View Stock Farm | |
Location | Missouri Route WW, near Rich Hill, Missouri |
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Coordinates | 38°03′15″N 94°27′50″W / 38.05417°N 94.46389°W |
Area | 1,203.2 acres (486.9 ha) |
Built | c. 1879 | , 1893-1894
Architect | V.B. Van Dyke |
Architectural style | Folk Victorian |
NRHP reference No. | 15000573[1] |
Added to NRHP | September 8, 2015 |
Prairie View Stock Farm, also known as the Bluestem Ranch, is a historic farm and national historic district in western Missouri located near Rich Hill; it covers territory in both Bates and Vernon counties. The district encompasses four contributing buildings, three contributing sites, and two contributing structures in a Rural Historic Landscape District. The contributing sites include a hay meadow, a tall-fescue prairie, and a 160-acre plot of native, tall-grass prairie. It is a state-designated Prairie View Natural Area.
The contributing buildings are a transverse-crib barn/grain house (c. 1879), a barn/feeding facility, a two-story, frame, folk Victorian house (1893-1894); and a frame privy (1893-1894). The contributing structures are a storm cellar (1893-1894) and an arbor (c. 1895).[2]: 8
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register of Historic Places Listings". Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 9/08/15 through 9/11/15. National Park Service. September 18, 2015.
- ^ Rhonda Chalfant (February 2015). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Prairie View Stock Farm" (PDF). Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved March 1, 2017. (includes 26 photographs from 2015)