National Register of Historic Places
Halderman-Van Buskirk Farmstead
Listed federally as Halderman--Van Buskirk Farmstead
Roann, Wabash County, Indiana
The record
- Listed
- March 20, 2013
- Type
- Historic district
- Address
- 5653 N. 700 W., Roann
- County
- Wabash
- State
- Indiana
- Contributing resources
- 5 buildings, 4 structures, 1 site
- Coordinates
- 40.90801, -85.92378
- Reference number
- 13000092
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The story
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The Halderman-Van Buskirk Farmstead is a historic district at 5653 N. 700 W. in Roann, Wabash County, with a Gothic Revival farmhouse built in 1860-1865.
Why it's listed
It was listed in the National Register in 2013 under criteria A and C, with local significance in agriculture and architecture. The nomination gives its period of significance as 1860 to 1941, reflecting the 1860-1865 farmhouse and the 1941 silo.
Physical character
The walls are locally made brick on a granite fieldstone foundation, with limestone sills and lintels. The farmhouse has carved vergeboards, a steeply pitched roof and a two-story front porch, whose floor was expanded and columns changed around 1930. The dairy barn gained an addition with a pent roof around 1890 and a lean-to around 1910, and was converted to a horse barn in 2006. The house was extensively restored from 2005 to 2011, and an addition went up in 2005 where the summer kitchen had stood.
Historical context
Cornelius Halderman bought 520 acres from Joseph Beckner in 1853 and built a livestock barn, corn crib and dairy barn between 1860 and 1880. Dow Van Buskirk bought the Halderman farm in 1906 and farmed it from 1906 to 1916. Dow died in 1940, and in 1941 Maud Van Buskirk had a concrete silo built for the dairy operation.