Prairie View Stock Farm, also known as the Bluestem Ranch, is a historic farm and national
historic district
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in western
Missouri located near
Rich Hill; it covers territory in both
Bates
Bates may refer to:
Places
* Bates, Arkansas, an unincorporated community
* Bates, Illinois. an unincorporated community in Sangamon County
* Bates, Michigan, a community in Grand Traverse County
* Bates, New York, a hamlet in the town of Elli ...
and
Vernon counties. The district encompasses four contributing buildings, three contributing sites, and two contributing structures in a Rural Historic Landscape District. The contributing sites include a hay meadow, a tall-
fescue
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prairie, and a 160-acre plot of native, tall-grass prairie. It is a state-designated Prairie View Natural Area.
The contributing buildings are a transverse-crib barn/grain house (c. 1879), a barn/feeding facility, a two-story, frame, folk
Victorian
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19th century
* Victorian era, British history during Queen Victoria's 19th-century reign
** Victorian architecture
** Victorian house
** Victorian decorative arts
** Victorian fashion
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house (1893-1894); and a frame
privy (1893-1894). The contributing structures are a
storm cellar (1893-1894) and an
arbor
Arbor(s) or Arbour(s) may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* ''Arbor'' (installation), a 2013 public artwork in Indianapolis, Indiana, US
* Arbor, a counterweight-carrying device found in theater fly systems
* ''The Arbor'', a 1980 play by And ...
(c. 1895).
[ (includes 26 photographs from 2015)]
It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places in 2015.
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References
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri
Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri
Victorian architecture in Missouri
Houses completed in 1894
Buildings and structures in Vernon County, Missouri
National Register of Historic Places in Vernon County, Missouri
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