NRHP: James and Margaret Greer Farmstead

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James and Margaret Greer Farmstead

NRHP Reference #: 11000103

NRHP Listing Date: 20110321

Location

6135 202nd St, Alvo vicinity, Cass County, Nebraska

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Summary

Significant for its association with rural settlement patterns, agricultural practices, and vernacular architecture, this farmstead represents the continuous agricultural development in eastern Cass County from the late 1880s through the 1950s. Along with four siblings, James Greer emigrated from Northern Ireland in the 1880s, bought this farm from an earlier homesteader, and after surviving drought and financial panic in the 1890s, created a successful farm. Among the most important buildings on the farmstead are a gambrel-roofed barn, a monitor-roofed hay barn, a drive through corncrib, and a 1917 Craftsman-style bungalow farmhouse.

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