Property Record
600 E BROADWAY
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Bender Farmstead |
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| Reference Number: | 110813 |
| Location (Address): | 600 E BROADWAY |
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| County: | Sauk |
| City: | Rock Springs |
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| Survey Date: | 1998 |
| Historic Use: | Agricultural - outbuilding |
| Architectural Style: | Astylistic Utilitarian Building |
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| Wall Material: | Stone - Unspecified |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | A 'site file' (Bender 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, Division of Historic Preservation. The chicken house is a part of a highly intact famstead with buildings dating from circa 1880 to circa 1920. Also present on the property are a historic piggery, dairy barn with an attached silo, house, granary, stacking barn, and machine shed. The buildings do not represent an ethnographic farmstead, rather the buildings are laid out according to the topography. The buildings represent the diversified farming traditionally undertaken by the Benders. The date of construction of the chicken coop in unknown, but may date to circa 1880. The agricultural census for that year indicateds that the Benders had 40 poultry with a production of 125 dozen eggs. The stone construction of the chicken coop itself and the south facing windows also subscribe to a late nineteenth century theory of poultry housing. The upper, wood frame floor is used for storage and has no direct access to the first floor coop. Also attached to the chicken house is a shed construction scratching pen. The pen was extant in 1914 when a photograph of the area was taken. Ehrenreich and Louise Bender founded the farm in 1868 when they bought the land from the United States government. Both Ehrenreich and Louise were born in Wittenburg, Germany. The farm remains in the Bender family. small animal building |
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| Bibliographic References: |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |