Prairie View Stock Farm

Prairie View Stock Farm
Location Missouri Route WW, near Rich Hill, Missouri
Coordinates 38°03′15″N 94°27′50″W / 38.05417°N 94.46389°W / 38.05417; -94.46389Coordinates: 38°03′15″N 94°27′50″W / 38.05417°N 94.46389°W / 38.05417; -94.46389
Area 1,203.2 acres (486.9 ha)
Built c. 1879 (1879), 1893-1894
Architect V.B. Van Dyke
Architectural style Folk Victorian
NRHP reference # 15000573[1]
Added to NRHP September 8, 2015

Prairie View Stock Farm, also known as the Bluestem Ranch, is a historic farm and national historic district located near Rich Hill in Bates County and Vernon County, Missouri. The district encompasses four contributing buildings, three contributing sites, and two contributing structures in a Rural Historic Landscape District. The contributing sites include a hay meadow, a tall fescue prairie, and a 160-acre plot of native, tall-grass prairie. It is a state designated Prairie View Natural Area. The contributing buildings are a transverse-crib barn/grain house (c. 1879), a barn/feeding facility, a two-story, frame, folk Victorian house (1893-1894), and a frame privy (1893-1894). The contributing structures are a storm cellar (1893-1894) and an arbor (c. 1895).[2]:8

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "National Register of Historic Places Listings". Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 9/08/15 through 9/11/15. National Park Service. 2015-09-18.
  2. Rhonda Chalfant (February 2015). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Prairie View Stock Farm" (PDF). Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved 2017-03-01. (includes 26 photographs from 2015)


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