Manning–Kamna Farm
Manning-Kamna Farm | |
Location | Washington County, Oregon, USA |
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Nearest city | Hillsboro, Oregon |
Coordinates | 45°33′1″N 122°58′45″W / 45.55028°N 122.97917°W |
Built | 1880s to 1920s[2] |
NRHP reference No. | 07001077[1] |
Added to NRHP | October 10, 2007[1] |
The Manning–Kamna Farm is a private
History
Farming here began in 1851, when Carlos Dudley Wilcox and his wife Elizabeth settled a
Elizabeth remarried on January 29, 1874, to native New Yorker Louis Manning.[5] Manning, born in 1836, had previously lived in Kansas, Ohio, Colorado, and Eastern Oregon before settling in Washington County.[5] On Elizabeth's 320-acre (1.3 km2) farm, the two raised her children from the prior marriage and grew various crops.[2] They built a new farmhouse on the property between 1876 and 1883.[5] The Mannings also built a two-story barn on the farm in the early 1880s.[5]
Herman Kamna (1870–1924) from Bassen, in what was then the Province of Hanover, in Germany (now Lower Saxony) immigrated to Washington County with his family in 1886.[5] He married Anna Rehse on February 14, 1900, and the couple purchased 175 acres (0.71 km2) from the Mannings in June 1903.[5] The Mannings retained a life estate to a small portion of the farm that included the farmhouse, and remained on the farm until after Louis' death in 1910 and Elizabeth's in 1916.[5] The Kamnas then moved into the farmhouse.[2]
The Kamnas had four children, though one died in an accident at the farm at age three.
Farmhouse
Located along northwest Evergreen Road at Jackson School Road, the Manning-Kamna farm sits across the street from the city of Hillsboro. The largest and oldest building on the farm is the residence. Built as early as 1876 and as late as 1883, the house stands 1.5 stories tall and is of a late Victorian style in a cruciform shape.[2] The cross-wing Western Farmhouse designed structure has a gabled roof (double Gabled-Ells) with four hip-roofed porches, one on each corner.[5] The home is a wood-framed building that had a concrete foundation added in 2006.[5] Materials include mainly Douglas-fir for the wood, and a composite shingle roof.[5]
Details on the home include
Out buildings
The 2.22 acres (0.90 ha) farm has nine other buildings organized in a rectangular pattern, with the home in the middle, the barn to the west, and the privy on the eastern boundary.[3][5] The original two-story barn is the oldest and largest of these remaining buildings,[2] dating from the early 1880s.[5] Built of hand hewn timber posts, it measures 35 feet (11 m) by 70 feet (21 m) and has white shiplap siding. The two newer barn buildings and the older portion form one interconnected building.[2] These newer parts are one story tall, with the middle one measuring 20 feet (6 m) by 30 feet (9 m) and the northernmost 20 feet (6 m) by 20 feet (6 m).[5] White board and batten siding was used on the middle portion that was built around 1910 and tongue and groove siding on the end section added about 1920. The barns were used for the seed growing operation of the farm.[2]
Attached to the residence is the woodshed, or chop house, that stands one story tall and has a gabled roof.[5] Built in the early 1900s by the Kamna family, it was remodeled in the 1970s and turned into a finished space complete with half-bath.[2] The chicken coop was built about 1920 with an unfinished interior, and also has a gabled roof. The 12.5-foot (3,800 mm) by 20-foot (6,100 mm) structure has a dirt floor and shiplap siding. The potato shed also features the shiplap siding and gabled roof.[5] Measuring 16 feet (4,900 mm) by 22 feet (6,700 mm), the concrete floored structure was built circa 1910 and was used for storing crops.[2]
The smallest structure is the privy, which is 6 feet (1,800 mm) by 8 feet (2,400 mm). The well was used for irrigation on the farm.
Also built around the same time was the smokehouse which had a dirt floor.[5] Measuring 8.5 feet (2,600 mm) by 10.5 feet (3,200 mm), it has white shiplap siding and a cedar shake roof on the exterior.[5] The canning shed on the property is the only brick structure.[2] Built in the late 19th century, it was used for canning, food storage, and summer kitchen. Measuring 14 feet (4.3 m) squared (1.3 m2), it also has a hipped roof which features a wooden ventilation chimney at the apex.[2] The exterior of the brick is covered with stucco.
The newest building on the farm is the garage that was built in the 1920s.
References
- ^ a b "Oregon National Register List" (PDF). State of Oregon. Retrieved 2009-05-25.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s "Site Information: Manning-Kamna Farm". Oregon Historic Sites Database. Oregon Department of Parks and Recreation. Retrieved 23 December 2017.
- ^ a b c Trappen, Michelle (October 26, 2007). "Farm near Hillsboro named historic". The Oregonian.
- ^ Bogan, David (October 26, 2007). "Washington County farm listed in National Register of Historic Places". Oregon Parks and Recreation Department News. Oregon Parks and Recreation Department. Archived from the original on July 23, 2011. Retrieved 2009-06-06.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af Georganne Sahaida (March 2005) [revised July 2007]. "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Historic Places Registration Form: Manning–Kamna Farm" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved February 26, 2016.