Manning-Kamna Farm
Coordinates: 45 ° 33 ′ 1 ″ N , 122 ° 58 ′ 45 ″ W.
The Manning-Kamna Farm is a private farm near Hillsboro in Washington County , Oregon in the United States. It was settled in the 1850s, and ten structures from the period between 1883 and 1930 still stand, including the farmhouse with the wings arranged in a cross. These ten structures were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007 as an example of a farm dating from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries in the area . Until the 1950s, the farm was used to raise seeds, including lolch and vetch . The contributing structures include a barn, smokehouse, well house, woodshed and toilet house.
history
The farm began operations in 1851 when Carlos Dudley Wilcox and his wife Elizabeth made a donation land claim on the Tualatin Plains in Washington County, Oregon. Carlos immigrated to the Oregon Country with his parents in 1847 and married fifteen-year-old Elizabeth Scoggin on July 3, 1851. The couple had five children on the 640 acre farm. In 1857 Carlos sold 62 acres of his land. When the couple divorced in 1872, Elizabeth received the southern part and Carlos the northern part. He sold half of his share in 1874.
Elizabeth remarried on January 29, 1874, to Louis Manning, who was born in New York in 1836. He had previously lived in Kansas , Ohio , Colorado and eastern Oregon before settling in Washington County. On Elizabeth's 320 & Acre, the two raised the children of Elizabeth's first marriage and grew various agricultural products. Between 1876 and 1883 they built a new farmhouse. In the early 1880s, the Mannings also built a two-story barn on the property.
Herman Kamna (1870–1924) from Bassen , then in the province of Hanover , today in Lower Saxony , came with his family as an immigrant in 1886 to Washington County. He married Anna Rehse on February 14, 1900, and in June 1903 the couple bought 175 acres of land from the Mannings. The Mannings kept a small piece of their farm, including the farmhouse, to live on for life and stayed here until the deaths of Louis (1910) and Elizabeth (1916). The Kamnas then moved into the farmhouse.
The Kamnas had four children, but one died in an accident on the farm at the age of three. A son took over the farm. By the early 1900s they had some other new buildings built on the site, including a shed , outhouse, pump house, chicken coop , smokehouse, and two sheds for storing potatoes and canned goods. Around 1910 the family built an extension to the barn, which was followed by a second extension around 1920. The last building constructed was a garage in the 1920s. In the 1920s, the family installed plumbing in the farmhouse and converted two of the porches into rooms. The Kamnas grew oats , fescue , lole, vetches and clover on the farm until the 1950s and used the barn to sort and pack the seeds. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 10, 2007. At that time it was no longer owned by the Kamna family.
Farmhouse
Located on the northwest side of the intersection of Evergreen Road and Jackson School Road, Manning-Kamna Farm is across the street from Hillsboro Town. The largest and oldest building on the property is the residential building. It was built in 1876 at the earliest and 1883 at the latest. It has one and a half floors, has a cruciform floor plan and is built in the late Victorian style. The farmhouse is a gable-independent building with a hipped roof over the four verandas at the corners. It is a timber frame construction, but the concrete foundation was added in 2006. Douglas firs were used as building material , the roof is a shingle roof made of a mixed material.
The details of the house include the double sliding windows, two chimneys, seven doors and a catwalk that connects the house to the neighboring shed. The chimneys have brackets and the turned columns that support the roof of the verandas have triangular wooden angles on the eaves. Inside are the kitchen, laundry room, bathroom, dining room, living room, foyer and entrance hall as well as a room with a Rumford stove on the ground floor . On the second floor are the bathroom, sewing room and three bedrooms.
Outbuildings
There are nine other buildings on the farm's grounds, arranged in a rectangular pattern. The farmhouse is in the center, the barn in the west and the outhouse in the east. The original two-story barn is the oldest and largest of the remaining outbuildings. The hand-hewn pillars are 35 feet (10.5 m) wide and 70 feet (21 m). The facade is made of white ship planks. It forms a single connected building with the two newer barns. These two additions are only one story, with the central portion measuring 20 feet by 30 feet (6 m by 9 m) and the northern part measuring 20 feet by 20 feet (6 m by 6 m). The facade of the middle section, built around 1910, consists of plastered wooden panels, and tongue and groove were used on the end section, built around 1920. The barns were used to process the seeds grown on the farm.
Connected to the house is the formerly one-story shed with a gable roof. The shed built by the Kamna family in the early 1900s was expanded in the 1970s and converted into a living room with a half bath. The chicken coop, which was built around 1920, has not been completed, but it also has a gable roof. The floor of the approximately 3.5 m wide and 6 m long building consists of rammed earth and the outer walls of ship planks. The potato shed has the same facade and also a gable roof. The building, built around 1910 and equipped with a concrete floor, was used to store fruit and vegetables. It is 16 feet (around 5 m) wide and 22 feet (around 6.7 m) long.
The smallest structure is the toilet house, it is around 1.8 m wide and around 2.4 m long. It was used from around 1910 until the 1950s. There were three pit toilets inside . The facade was made of ship planks and the roof of cedar shingles. The pump house has a brick foundation , and the well room inside is also framed with bricks. It is a wooden frame construction that was built around 1910 and has a hipped roof with shingles made of a composite material. The pump house was used to irrigate the farm.
Around the same time the smokehouse was built, which was built in the same way as the chicken coop. It is 2.5 m wide and 3.2 m long. The roof is covered with cedar shingles. The only building made of bricks was used for canning canned food, as a pantry and as a summer kitchen. The 1.3 m² building also has a gable roof with a wooden vent for ventilation . The outside is plastered .
The newest building on the farm is the garage, built in the 1920s. It has a gable roof, free-standing rafter ends , is clad with horizontal wooden planks and covered with shingles. The 24-foot (7.2 m) wide and 16-foot (4.8 m) long structure stands between the farmhouse and the barn. The entrance is on the south side. A large piglet nut tree ( Carya glabra ) and black walnut trees provide shade for the garage.
supporting documents
- ↑ a b c Michelle Trappen: Farm near Hillsboro named historic (English) . In: The Oregonian , October 25, 2007. Retrieved July 19, 2011.
- ^ David Bogan: Washington County farm listed in the National Register of Historic Places . In: Oregon Parks and Recreation Department News . Oregon Parks and Recreation Department. October 26, 2007. Archived from the original on July 23, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 19, 2011.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u Georganne Sahaida: National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Manning-Kamna Farm. ( English ) In: Boundless Oregon . University of Oregon Libraries. Retrieved July 19, 2011.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Oregon Historic Sites Database: Site Information: Manning-Kamna Farm ( English ) Oregon Department of Parks and Recreation. Retrieved July 19, 2011.
