Cty. Rd. WW, Rich Hill, Missouri. County/parish: Vernon.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places September 08, 2015. NRIS 15000573.
4 contributing buildings. 3 contributing sites. 2 contributing structures.Also known as:
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).
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.
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