Property Record
W665 County Road P
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Farmstead - basement barn |
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| Other Name: | |
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| Reference Number: | 246118 |
| Location (Address): | W665 County Road P |
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| County: | La Crosse |
| City: | |
| Township/Village: | Washington |
| Unincorporated Community: | |
| Town: | 15 |
| Range: | 5 |
| Direction: | W |
| Section: | 35 |
| Quarter Section: | SE |
| Quarter/Quarter Section: | SW |
| Year Built: | 1930 |
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| Additions: | C. 1965 |
| 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, gambrel roof basement barn constructed circa 1930. The foundation of the basement barn is concrete block pierced by a series of regularly spaced glass block windows indicative of a dairy barn. The upper story is clad in ribbed metal, and the gambrel roof is clad in standing seam metal with hay hoods extending from either gable end. Pairs of wooden hinged hay doors are immediately below the hay hoods. Two decorative ventilators rise from the roof ridge. The barn features an attached, concrete block milkhouse at its southwest corner. A concrete silo was previously attached to the west end of the south elevation by a gable roof hyphen. It was removed after 2012 as well as a detached, freestanding concrete silo in the enclosed livestock yard. A large one-story gable roof building was constructed circa 1965 adjoining the west elevation of the basement barn. The exterior, eaves, and roof have been covered with ribbed sheet metal. The farmstead stands at the southeast corner of County Road P and Olstad Road in the southeast quarter of Section 35 in the Town of Washington, La Crosse County. Historic-age resources include a house (246117), basement barn (246118), tobacco barn (246119), and two small agricultural outbuildings. Non-historic resources include a large machine shed, shed, and garage. A log outbuilding has been removed since 2012. The Farmstead is 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 |