Property Record
11960 COUNTY HIGHWAY F
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | O.R. and Martha Dyer House |
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| Reference Number: | 90664 |
| Location (Address): | 11960 COUNTY HIGHWAY F |
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| County: | Richland |
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| Township/Village: | Richwood |
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| Town: | 9 |
| Range: | 2 |
| Direction: | W |
| Section: | 29 |
| Quarter Section: | NE |
| Quarter/Quarter Section: | NE |
| Year Built: | 1900 |
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| Additions: | |
| Survey Date: | 2004 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Queen Anne |
| Structural System: | Balloon Frame |
| Wall Material: | Aluminum/Vinyl Siding |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | This farmstead is comprised of a Queen Anne style farmhouse, a frame gable-roofed barn with several one-story additions, a concrete and a metal silo as well as pole barns and other small outbuildings. The two-story frame Dyer farmhouse is constructed on a stone foundation and covered by a shingled hip and gable roof and contemporary siding. This Queen Anne styled farmhouse features two-story gabled bays projecting from the north and south elevations and a three-sided, two-story bay projecting from the front [east] elevation. An open, wrap-around front porch supported by simple Tuscan style columns further characterizes this early 20th century house. The porch features an ornamental sunburst design on the end of the gable over the porch entrance. Rectangular metal windows are located on the upper and lower stories and small full arched windows are located in the gable ends of the pedimented bays. An enclosed, one-story porch extends from the rear of the house. This farmstead was part of a 113 acre farming operation owned by Dan Dunken [also spelled Duncan] from at least 1874 until 1895. Dunken sold the property to O.R. Dyer, who had married Martha Chitwood in 1895. O.R. and Martha Dyer had a new farmhouse constructed just after the turn of the century. The Dyers became the parents of seven children. By 1919, the Dyer farm was known as the Pleasant Valley Stock Farm, and the farmland had been increased to 320 acres. In the 1950s, after operating this farm for 46 years, Dyer and his wife Martha retired and sold their 318.5-acre farm and farmstead to the present owner Robert Weadge. |
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| Bibliographic References: | Plat maps. Dyer Family, MSS 922, Brewer Library, Richland Center. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |