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HB232290
General View Of Farm, View To Northeast
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HB232291
General View Of Farm, View To Northwest - (from Left) Pole Shed, Milking Barn, Barn
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HB232292
General View Of Farm, View To South-southeast - (from Left) Barn, Milking Barn, Sheds
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HB232293
General View Of Farm, View To Southeast - (from Left) Barn, Milking Barn
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HB232294
General View Of Farm, View Of Outbuildings To Northeast - (from Left) Chicken Coop, Workshop, Pump House
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HB232295
General View Of Farm, View Of Outbuildings To Southwest - (from Left) Stable, Equipment Shed
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HB232296
General View Of Farm, View To East - Grove
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HB232297
General View Of Farm, View To South - Grove (house In Background)
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LocationNortheast Corner of County Roads 56 & T,
Clarkville vicinity, CO
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1933.
Notes
Survey number HABS CO-129
Building/structure dates:
1906 initial construction
Significance: The John and Mary Felderman Farm, located on the high plains of eastern Colorado in Yuma County, is a small family farm. The farm was established in 1906 and was operated by the Feldermans for almost four decades. The farmstead includes a 1912 hipped roof cottage with Victorian-style porch and dormer detailing, a large, gabled, wood frame barn, root cellars, shed, stable and well pump house. The Feldermans were unusual in that they raised horses rather than the traditional dryland crops and cattle. When the market for draft horses was replaced by vehicles powered by internal combustion engines, the farm owners adapted to other operations, including grain and beef cattle production, hog-raising and dairying. The Felderman Farm illustrates the adaptive nature of the high plains farmers of Yuma County, Colorado. Adaptation to the harsh, dry environment was and remains a common pattern in the history of the area of the Felderman Farm. In addition, the Felderman Farm house is an example of the late nineteenth century vernacular hipped cottage. The east (rear) and west (front) sides give the appearance of a hipped cottage and demonstrate a clear connection to one of the Colorado plains stylistic traditions of the closing years of the nineteenth century. However, the house is actually a combination of two such building forms connected by a central section that served as a living room larger than those typical of the earlier hipped cottages.
Subjects
AgricultureDairyingCattle Industry
Related Names
Anderson, Nanon, Field Team
Thallheimer, Arnold, Photographer
Hardaway, Karen, Delineator
Mehls, Steven F., Historian
Andrews, Deborah, Delineator
Collection
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
Contents
Photograph caption(s):
1. GENERAL VIEW OF FARM, VIEW TO NORTHEAST
2. GENERAL VIEW OF FARM, VIEW TO NORTHWEST - (from left) POLE SHED, MILKING BARN, BARN
3. GENERAL VIEW OF FARM, VIEW TO SOUTH-SOUTHEAST - (from left) BARN, MILKING BARN, SHEDS
4. GENERAL VIEW OF FARM, VIEW TO SOUTHEAST - (from left) BARN, MILKING BARN
5. GENERAL VIEW OF FARM, VIEW OF OUTBUILDINGS TO NORTHEAST - (from left) CHICKEN COOP, WORKSHOP, PUMP HOUSE
6. GENERAL VIEW OF FARM, VIEW OF OUTBUILDINGS TO SOUTHWEST - (from left) STABLE, EQUIPMENT SHED
7. GENERAL VIEW OF FARM, VIEW TO EAST - GROVE
8. GENERAL VIEW OF FARM, VIEW TO SOUTH - GROVE (HOUSE IN BACKGROUND)
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