M. S. Whitcomb Farm

Coordinates: 44°23′45″N 72°57′25″W / 44.39583°N 72.95694°W

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M.S. Whitcomb Farm
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district


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Location	US 2, Richmond, Vermont
Coordinates	44°23′45″N 72°57′25″W / 44.39583°N 72.95694°W / 44.39583; -72.95694
Area	170 acres (69 ha)
Built	1851 (1851)
Architectural style	Bank Barn
MPS	Agricultural Resources of Vermont MPS
NRHP reference No.	93001010^[1]
Added to NRHP	September 30, 1993

The M.S. Whitcomb Farm is a historic farm property on United States Route 2 in Richmond, Vermont. Established in the 1850s as a horse farm, it has seen agricultural use in some form since then. Its most distinguishing feature is a large bank barn with a monitor roof, built in 1901. The property, now 170 acres (69 ha), was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.^[1]

Description and history

The Whitcomb Farm property is located about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) east of the village center of Richmond, on a roughly triangular parcel that abuts Interstate 89 to the south and is divided by US 2. The area south of US 2 is mainly bottomlands of the Winooski River, and have traditionally been used for crops, while the area north of that road is hillier, and has traditionally been used as pastureland. The farmstead complex is set on the north side of US 2, and is roughly centered on the farm's road frontage. The complex's most prominent feature, visible from the interstate, is a large three-story bank barn with a monitor roof. At the western end of the farmstead is a 2-1/2 story wood frame farmhouse with Italianate appearance; it is a reconstruction (using some surviving elements) of an 1875 building that burned down in 1982. To the right of the bank barn is a round-roofed metal storage barn built about 1975.^[2]

This land was cleared for farming sometime in the early 19th century. It was in 1821 the birthplace of George F. Edmunds, a United States Senator from Vermont. The farm in its present form was started in the early 1850s by William Freeman as a horse breeding operation, which he sold in 1854 to M.S. Manwell. This farm and other surrounding land were consolidated by the late 1880s into a single predominantly dairy operation by Moses S. Whitcomb. He is credited with building the monitor-roofed bank barn in 1901; it is one of the only barns of this type in the entire state.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ ^a ^b L.T. Rosenthal (1993). "NRHP nomination for M.S. Whitcomb Farm". National Park Service. Retrieved December 16, 2016. with photos from 1992

National Register of Historic Places in Chittenden County, Vermont

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Commercial/ Industrial	Burlington Montgomery Ward Building Burlington Traction Company Ethan Allen Engine Company No. 4 William Fitzgerald Block Moquin's Bakery Moran Municipal Generation Station Old Red Mill and Mill House Porter Screen Company Richmond Underwear Company Building Saltus Grocery Store Tavern on Mutton Hill Winooski Block
Government	Chittenden County Courthouse † U.S. Post Office and Custom House
Educational	Carnegie Building of the Fletcher Free Library Champlain School Converse Hall District No. 5 Schoolhouse Jonesville Academy Proctor Maple Research Farm
Religious	First Baptist Church First Methodist Church Howard Mortuary Chapel Huntington Lower Village Church Methodist Episcopal Church of Winooski Old Ohavi Zedek Synagogue Richmond Congregational Church Williston Congregational Church
Residential	Ethan Allen Homestead Apartment Building at 27 and 31 Peru Street and 29 Johnson Street Wilson Alwyn "Snowflake" Bentley House Roswell Butler House Martin Chittenden House Dumas Tenements Duplex at 22-26 Johnson Street Duplex at 73-75 Sherman Street Follett House Galusha House Grasse Mount House at 44 Front Street Martin L. Kelsey House LeFerriere House McNeil Homestead Mintzer House Normand House Old Stone House Charles R. Palmer House Cicero Goddard Peck House John B. Robarge Duplex Roberge-Desautels Apartment House Daniel Webster Robinson House Lucy Ruggles House Stannard House Lee Tracy House Edward Wells House Wells-Jackson Carriage House Complex Winterbotham Estate

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† This entry has been removed from the registry.
‡ This historic property also has portions in an adjacent county.

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