Property Record
4009 200TH AVE
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | DAVIS FARMSTEAD BANK BARN |
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| Reference Number: | 227195 |
| Location (Address): | 4009 200TH AVE |
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| County: | Kenosha |
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| Township/Village: | Paris |
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| Town: | 2 |
| Range: | 21 |
| Direction: | E |
| Section: | 29 |
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| Year Built: | 1915 |
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| Additions: | C. 1983 |
| Survey Date: | 20132019 |
| Historic Use: | barn |
| Architectural Style: | Astylistic Utilitarian Building |
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| Wall Material: | Wood |
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| Other Buildings On Site: | Y |
| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | The Davis Farmstead, located at 4009 200th Avenue in the Town of Paris, was established by the Davis family, Welsh immigrants, by the early 1840s. Richard and Elizabeth Davis immigrated to Wisconsin in 1841 and established a farm on 40 acres the same year. In 1854, Davis constructed a small Greek Revival House on the property. It is likely that the majority of other farm buildings on the farmstead were constructed after this time. By the time of Richard Davis’ death in 1883, the farm had grown to 283 acres, and the property was inherited by his son Lewis. By the late nineteenth century, the property had become a large dairy farm, producing butter and cheese products for direct daily shipments to the City of Kenosha and later Chicago. The Davis family owned the property until at least the late 1920s, when it was known as the Oak Ridge Home Farm. A 'site file' titled "Davis-Sabin Farmstead" exists for this property. It contains additional information such as correspondence, newspaper clippings, or historical information. It is a public record and may be viewed in person at the Wisconsin Historical Society, State Historic Preservation Office. 2015- "The Davis -Sabin Farmstead consists of seven historic resources including a house [AHI#227193], dairy barn complex with attached silos and milk house [227195], pump house [227196], machine shed [227194], animal barn [227197], shed [227198], and wire grain bin. The property also contains six resources constructed after 1965 including one pole barn, two metal grain bins, two wire grain bins and a feeding shed. Bank Barn - AHI #227195 The dairy barn complex was constructed in two stages: the western third of the building circa 1915 and the remaining two-thirds in about 1983. Overall, this bank barn is rectangular in plan with a raised concrete block foundation, board and batten walls, and asphalt-shingled roof. The original portion of the building is gabled with a large shed-roofed projection along the south elevation. A gable-roofed milk house projects from the barn's west elevation; the milk house contains a bank of four 4-pane windows and a single doorway under a recessed corner porch. Two silos have been attached to the south elevation of the original bank barn. The circa 1983 addition to the east elevation of the gabled bank barn exhibits an arched roof and contains regularly spaced concrete block windows in the south elevation. A 1-story gabled addition has been constructed at the east elevation of the arched roof addition and opens into the adjacent barnyard where the feeding shed (AHI #227715) was constructed circa 1985." -"Davis-Sabin Farmstead", WisDOT #3200-01-02, Prepared by UWM-CRM, (2015). |
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| Bibliographic References: |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |