Property Record
E9440 County Road P
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | James Dickson Hillside Stock Farm - barn |
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| Other Name: | |
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| Reference Number: | 246172 |
| Location (Address): | E9440 County Road P |
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| County: | Vernon |
| City: | |
| Township/Village: | Clinton |
| Unincorporated Community: | |
| Town: | 14 |
| Range: | 3 |
| Direction: | W |
| Section: | 30 |
| Quarter Section: | SW |
| Quarter/Quarter Section: | NE |
| Year Built: | 1920 |
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| Additions: | C. 1960 |
| Survey Date: | 2023 |
| Historic Use: | basement barn |
| Architectural Style: | Astylistic Utilitarian Building |
| Structural System: | |
| Wall Material: | Wood |
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| Other Buildings On Site: | Y |
| Demolished?: | No |
| Demolished Date: |
| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | 2023: The James Dickson Hillsdale Stock Farm was constructed on either side of County Road P immediately east of the intersection with Knapp Valley Road and the convergence of the Dickson Branch with the mainstem of the West Fork Kickapoo River. Historic-age resources include a house (246171), barn (246172), tobacco barn (246173), and small agricultural outbuilding (246174). Non-historic age resources include a machine shed and detached garage. The basement barn is a medium, rectangular plan gambrel roof barn with full-length shed roof longitudinal addition. The barn was constructed circa 1920 and, based on the foundation, the shed roof addition was constructed circa 1960. The foundation of the basement barn is concrete block pierced by a series of regularly spaced glass block windows along the north and west elevations. The east portion of the basement level and the entire upper story are clad in horizontal wood drop siding, and the gambrel roof is clad in standing seam metal with a hay hood extending from the north gable end. A pair of wooden hinged hay doors is immediately below the hay hood. |
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| Bibliographic References: | Edwin C. Hood, Plat Book of Vernon County, Wisconsin (Minneapolis, MN: C.M. Foote and Company, 1896), 22. Published electronically by the Wisconsin Historical Society https://content.wisconsinhistory.org/digital/collection/maps/id/22142/rec/6 |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |