Millage Farm Rural Historic Landscape District Holyoke, Colorado
National Register of Historic Places Data
The Millage Farm Rural Historic Landscape District has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places with the following information, which has been imported from the National Register database and/or the Nomination Form. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- National Register ID
- 13000874
- Date Listed
- December 3, 2013
- Name
- Millage Farm Rural Historic District
- Other Names
- 5PL.110
- Part of
- N/A (Multiple Property Submission)
- Address
- Cty. Rd. 18 between Cty. Rd. 37 & US 385
- City/Town
- Holyoke
- County
- Phillips
- State
- Colorado
- Category
- district
- Level of Sig.
- local
- Areas of Sig.
- AGRICULTURE; ARCHITECTURE
Description
Text courtesy of the National Register of Historic Places, a program of the National Parks Service. Minor transcription errors or changes in formatting may have occurred; please see the Nomination Form PDF for official text. Some information may have become outdated since the property was nominated for the Register.
The Millage Farm Rural Historic Landscape District is significant for its association with the development of agriculture in Phillips County since 1906. Though the land was purchased from the federal government in 1891, the original owner Julius Poltera appears to have minimally developed the property (no buildings remain from his ownership period). Poltera sold the farm in 1902 and it passed through several absentee owners before being purchased by Jacob Henry Millage in 1906. Jacob Millage died in 1908 while building a house on the property. Carl Millage, his son, is responsible for the initial development of the property including the construction of a substantial hog barn for his purebred Duroc-Jerseys. The farm underwent a major expansion in the late 1940s and 1950s under the management of Carl Millage along with his sons Harold and Gerald. Substantial grain storage was added to the farm during this period, and the farm complex obtained its current appearance. Harold's son Stephen took over half of the operation of the farm in 1975 and continues to farm dryland grain crops. Gerald sold out the remainder to Stephen in 1986. The Millage Farm Rural Historic Landscape District is locally significant under Criterion A for agriculture for its long association with dryland farming and livestock production in Phillips County for the period 1906-1963. It is also locally significant under Criterion C for architecture as an excellent example of a mid-twentieth century farming complex with farm buildings of a type, period or method of construction representative of the mid-century evolution of such complexes in Phillips County between 1920 and 1960.
