DeFries House, Barn And Carpenter Shop
Above the main entry into the house is a hausspruch, which (translated from German) reads:
The Best that we have
is God and his Blessings.
B.A. DeVries : T. Ippers : A.B. DeVries.
1858
The three people referred to are Andreas Betten DeVries (later changed to DeFries), his father, Bette Andreas DeVries, and his stepmother, Trintje Ippers. They immigrated from Germany in 1855 and settled here. The farm expanded under Andreas to include 365 acres (148 ha), as well as other farm buildings. The three stone buildings are the original part of the farmstead. The house is a two-story, gable-roof structure, measuring 28 by 38 feet (8.5 by 11.6 m). The stone barn is an 18-by-38-foot (5.5 by 11.6 m) structure capped with a gable roof. The carpenter shop is a 16-by-18-foot (4.9 by 5.5 m) structure built adjacent to the house; as such, it is not considered an outbuilding. The three buildings were listed together on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ Molly Meyers Naumann. "DeFries House, Barn and Carpenter Shop". National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-06-21. with nine photos