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NAME: Meeker
Farm COMMON
NAME: . LOCATION: 560 New Vernon
Road BLOCK/LOT: . VILLAGE: Meyersville USGS
QUAD: Chatham OWNER: Great Swamp Wildlife Refuge
(1998) UTM
REFS: Zone/Northing/Easting
CONSTRUCTION
DATE: Between 1868 and
1887 SOURCE OF
DATE: Maps ARCHITECT: . BUILDER: STYLE: Vernacular FORM / PLAN
TYPE: Block and wings NUMBER OF
STORIES: 2 FOUNDATION: Brick EXTERIOR WALL
FABRIC: Wooden shingle FENESTRATION: 2/2 sash ROOF: Wooden shingle gable
roof CHIMNEY(S): One interior brick ADDITIONAL
ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: Center gable-end facade with
two adjacent entries; flanking flat roofed wings.
Porch across part of facade and around side.
Vernacular Greek Revival form, but the house
post-dates the popularity of the style by half a
century.
The ramshackle English style barn that was built in 1922 , with vertical siding, shingle roof and a center vehicle bay was torn down in mid-1994. SURROUNDING ENVIRONMENT
The property was sold to the Great Swamp Wildlife Refuge. After which the house was boarded-up and the barn torn down. SIGNIFICANCE & HISTORICAL INFORMATION The property was developed by M. Meeker between 1868 and 1887. Both the house and the barn indicate the persistence of traditional building forms in rural areas even after other styles and technologies had become widely known. Site of the John Havriluk farm.
PHYSICAL
CONDITION OF STRUCTURES: EXCELLENT GOOD FAIR POOR REGISTER
ELIGIBILITY: YES POSSIBLE NO PART OF DISTRICT THREATS TO
SITE: ROADS DEVELOPMENT ZONING DETERIORATION X NO THREAT OTHER .. .. COMMENTS: The structure will not endure
as it is boarded-up and left to
deterioration. REFERENCES: RECORDED
BY: Janet W. Foster DATE: March-July 1986 ORGANIZATION: Acroterion . . UPDATED ENTRY
BY: L. Fast / W. O.
Watts DATE: June 1999 ORGANIZATION: Long Hill Township Historic
Preservation Advisory Committee . .
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