Property Record
E7022 County Road P
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | John C. Baglien Farmstead - house |
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| Other Name: | Woodbine Stock and Dairy Farm - house |
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| Reference Number: | 246125 |
| Location (Address): | E7022 County Road P |
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| County: | Vernon |
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| Township/Village: | Christiana |
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| Town: | 14 |
| Range: | 4 |
| Direction: | W |
| Section: | 6 |
| Quarter Section: | NW |
| Quarter/Quarter Section: | NE |
| Year Built: | 1878 |
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| Additions: | |
| Survey Date: | 2023 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Gabled Ell |
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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: | 2023: The house is a two-story gabled ell house constructed circa 1878. The principal elevation faces northwest onto the property driveway. The house’s T-shaped plan has been altered with additions to the side (southwest) and rear (southeast) elevations. Originally, the house featured a symmetrical fenestration pattern which has since been altered. Windows include 4-over-4 wood sash windows, presumably original, 2-over-2 wood sash windows, and 1-over-1 hung sash windows. According to Memoirs of Vernon County (1907), John C. Baglien succeeded his parents on the farmstead in Timber Coulee and “devoted [it] to diversified agriculture and stock-growing. He is one of the successful tobacco-growers of the county.” Born Johans Baklien (1846) in Skabu, Nordrefron, Gudbrandsdalen, Norway, Baglien also served as post master at the neighboring Lovass Post Office and operated the store at the intersection. Baglien also donated land for the neighboring Skogdalen Church and the converted Skogdalen Church Parish Hall. The John C. Baglien Farmstead, known as the Woodbine Stock and Dairy Farm, consists of a historic-age house (246125), basement barn (246126), gambrel roof agricultural outbuilding (246127), and gable roof machine shed (246128) constructed in the former Lovass hamlet of the Town of Christiana, Vernon County. The John C. Baglien Farmstead is associated with historic settlement patters in the region, specifically that of Norwegian immigrants and Norwegian Americans. Further, the farmstead is associated with agricultural practice of combined dairy production and tobacco cultivation in the Coon Creek Valley and the broader Northern Tobacco District. |
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| Bibliographic References: | “John C. Baglien,” Veron County Censor (Viroqua, Wisconsin) 6 July 1921:2. Earl M. Rogers, Memoirs of Vernon County… (Madison, WI: Western Historical Association, 1907.), 280-281. Map of Vernon County, Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI: Bogk and Rowland, Wisconsin Farm and Timber Lands, 1878. Plat Book of Vernon County, Wisconsin. Minneapolis, MN: C.M. Foote & Co., 1896. Atlas and Farm Directory with Complete Survey in Township Plats of Vernon County, Wisconsin. St. Paul, MN: Webb Publishing Company, 1915. Mrs. Leonard Olstad, “Skogdalen Congregation 1898–1979,” Westby Area Historical Society. April 12, 2015. http://westbyhistory.blogspot.com/2015/04/skogdalen-congregation-1898-1979.html |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |