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Property Location
| Location (Address) | 11736 Fork Rd |
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| County | Lafayette |
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| Township | Wiota |
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Property Features
| Year Built | 1870 |
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| Additions | |
| Survey Date | 2022 |
| Historic Use | barn |
| Architectural Style | Astylistic Utilitarian Building |
| Structural System | |
| Wall Material | Wood |
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| Other Buildings On Site | Y |
| Demolished | No |
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| Additional Comments | A 'site file' exists for this property under the name "Welty Barn." 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, State Historic Preservation Office. See also #86129, #243044, #243097, #243098 |
| Bibliographic References | Apps, Jerry. Barns of Wisconsin. Wisconsin: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2010. Apps, Jerry. Wisconsin Agriculture: A History. Wisconsin: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2015. Conley, P.H. “The Early History of Lafayette County.” The Wisconsin Magazine of History, Vol. 2, no. 3 (1919): 319 -330, accessed December 2022, http://www.jstor.org/stable/4630167. Noble, Allen G. and Richard K. Cleek. The Old Barn Book: A Field Guide to North American Barns and Other Farm Structures. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1997. Noble, Allen G. and Hubert G. H. Wilhelm. Barns of the Midwest. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1995. Schafer, Joseph. A History of Agriculture in Wisconsin. Madison, Wisconsin, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1922. Weisiger, Marsha and Contributors. Buildings of Wisconsin. Charlottesville, Virginia: University of Virginia Press, 2016. Western Historical Company. History of Lafayette County, Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1881. Wyatt, Barbara and State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Cultural Resource Management in Wisconsin: A Manual for Historic Properties. State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1986. References Considered Current, Richard, N., editor. History of Wisconsin. Volume II: The Civil War Era, 1848-1873. Madison, Wisconsin: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1976. Smith, Alice E., editor. History of Wisconsin. Volume I: From Exploration to Statehood. Madison, Wisconsin: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1985. Tishler, William H. Building Wisconsin’s Barns. Bloomington, Indiana: Archway Publishing, 2021. Wisconsin Cartographers Guild. Wisconsin’s Past and Present: A Historical Atlas. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1998. |
National And State Register Of Historic Places Listings
| National/State Register Listing Name | Daniel and Catherine Welty Barn |
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| National Register Listing Date | Apr 10, 2024 |
| State Register Listing Date | Nov 17, 2023 |
| Contributing | No |
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