Property Record
N445 County Road G
Architecture and History Inventory
Historic Name: | Edwin Sedevie Farmstead - basement barn |
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Reference Number: | 246113 |
Location (Address): | N445 County Road G |
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County: | La Crosse |
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Township/Village: | Washington |
Unincorporated Community: | |
Town: | 15 |
Range: | 5 |
Direction: | W |
Section: | 34 |
Quarter Section: | NW |
Quarter/Quarter Section: | NW |
Year Built: | 1965 |
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Additions: | |
Survey Date: | 2023 |
Historic Use: | basement barn |
Architectural Style: | Astylistic Utilitarian Building |
Structural System: | |
Wall Material: | Metal |
Architect: | |
Other Buildings On Site: | Y |
Demolished?: | No |
Demolished Date: |
National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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Additional Information: | 2023: The dairy barn is a large, rectangular plan basement barn constructed circa 1965. The foundation of the basement barn is of concrete block pierced by a series of regularly spaced, small one-by-one windows indicative of a dairy barn. The upper story is clad in ribbed metal and the shallow pointed arch roof is clad in standing seam metal. The barn features an attached milkhouse at its southwest corner and concrete silo attached to the center of the north elevation by a shed roof hyphen. A detached, freestanding concrete silo stands behind (east) of the dairy barn and adjacent to a covered feed trough in the enclosed livestock yard. The Edwin Sedevie Farmstead stands on either side of County Road G in the northeast quarter of Section 34 in the Town of Washington, La Crosse County. The farmstead includes a historic-age house (246108), smokehouse (246109), tobacco barn (246110), garage (246111), and small animal barn (246112) all constructed prior to 1938 as well as a basement barn (246113), small animal barn (246114), hay barn (246115), and machine shed (246116) constructed after 1963 and after the dams in the Coon Creek Watershed were completed. Edwin Sedevie, a first generation Bohemian American, owned and operated the farmstead from at least 1900-1930. The farmstead is associated with Bohemian settlement in the Town of Washington, La Crosse County which became known as Bohemian Valley or Bohemian Coulee. The Farmstead is further associated with agricultural practice of combined dairy production and tobacco cultivation in the Coon Creek Valley and the broader Northern Tobacco District. |
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Bibliographic References: |
Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |