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Arranged in an L plan around the house are a series of the three barns, the leagest barn having a milk-house attached. At the corner of the barn complex is a concrete stave silo, The earliest barn is probably contemporaneous with the house.
The property has exceptionally high integrity, apparently not in heavy agricultural use for decades. The farmstead is a fascinating combination of architectural design transmitted though the mass media of popular culture and design transmitted by oral tradition of folk culture. The house is a richly detailed fully realized example of a small pattern book Tudor Revival house complete with its professionally designed landscape plan. The barns, arranged in an L tightly around the house, form a traditional Czech courtyard farmstead plan. In Central Europe, farmers lived in compact villages with their houses and barns organized around a small courtyard. In Amnerica, on their individual farmss, the Czechs, more than most other ethnic groups, maintained the tradition of a courtyard plan, the house forming one side of the courtyard (albeit with more space between the building than in Europe but far less spance than typical in Anglo-American farmstead plans). Examination of Czech farmsteads in the area shows that the L plan of the barns is typical o Czech farmsteads. With the L having a variety of compass orientations, it appears that this plan was as much a product of a cultural desire for a farm courtyard as it was for protection from the weather.
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