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Property Features
A c. 1880 gable roof barn (AHI# 230060) with vertical wood siding and a concrete block and stone foundation with glass block windows is located south of the main house. A Gothic arch basement barn c. 1920 (AHI# 230061) is attached to the east end of the gable roof barn, oriented perpendicular to the earlier structure.
2015- "The Boning House is located on the west side of STH 69, approximately one-half-mile south of the community of Paoli. The property contains a residence [AHI#4433], smokehouse [230060], and the ruins of a privy to the north, as well as a group of agricultural buildings to the south, separated from the house by a gravel driveway lined with mature deciduous trees. Farm buildings consist of two barns [230060, 230061], a modern silo, grain bin [230062], and two other outbuildings [incl. 230063], all of which are grouped along the west side of the road. The Sugar River runs through the property at the rear of the building complex, and the house is surrounded by mature evergreen and deciduous trees and a grassy lawn. A landscaped garden is located north of the house. STH 69 runs north-south and bisects the farm parcel, and mature oak and maple trees line the opposite side of the highway for approximately 700 feet, separating the house and farm buildings from the associated agricultural lands east of the road. Many of these trees are over 4 feet in diameter and were planted by original homesteader Henry Boning.
3. Gable Barn Contributing Building [230060]
A timber-frame, gable roof, bank barn, built in 1860, is located on the south side of the driveway, oriented with its long axis running east-west. Based on the proportions, materials, and early date of construction, the barn may have originally been a threshing barn from the period of intensive wheat monoculture, later raised on a stone foundation to serve as a bank barn. The foundation is of roughly coursed local stone and has glass block windows. The walls of the upper levels are clad in vertical board siding and the gable roof is covered with asphalt shingles. Many of the hand-hewn framing timbers remain, although most of the floor joists have been removed and the threshing floor has been lost. An earthen ramp provides access to the haymow on the north elevation. A shed roof extension on the west end of the haymow shelters an open storage area beneath."
-"Henry and Janet Boning House", WisDOT#1693-05-02, Prepared by Mead & Hunt, Inc., (2015).
National And State Register Of Historic Places Listings
HI230060
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