Cartmill Farm House - Edmond, OK
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hamquilter
N 35° 41.579 W 097° 37.250
14S E 624784 N 3950772
This farmstead is one of the early settler homes of the late 19th century.
Waymark Code: WMJKBW
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 11/28/2013
Views: 5
The Cartmill Farm House was occupied by the Cartmill family for more than 50 years. They were responsible for the construction of the outbuildings and house additions. Built circa 1895, this is a 1-1/2 story frame house which sits on 1.8 acres of school land. The property faces N. MacArthur Blvd., 1/4 mile south of 220th Street (Coffee Creek Road).
The farmhouse is frame in what is known as a Hall and Parlor plan. In the 1930s, a rear addition was added, plus a porch enclosure. A corrugated metal roof was placed on the home in recent years, but fits the type of roof that would have been used originally. The outside walls are balloon framed with wooden lap siding. The home sits on concrete corner piers with older molded concrete blocks. These were most likely added in the 1930s during construction of the house additions.
Four Contributing outbuildings include a chicken coop north of the house, which has a shed roof; a milk house constructed with clay tile siding west and south of the coop; a cylindrical sheet metal granary west of the house, built in 1910; and a machine shed south of the granary, built in the 1920s.
On the fence at the street, a sign reads:
Cartmill Farm House
Circa 1895
This Home is a Rare Surviving Example of the
Houses Built by Settlers on the Praire (sic) as They
Moved out of Sod Houses.This Residence is now listed on the
National Register of Historic Places