Hargreaves Homestead Rural Landscape Holyoke, Colorado
National Register of Historic Places Data
Hargreaves Homestead Rural Landscape 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
- 13000873
- Date Listed
- December 3, 2013
- Name
- Hargreaves Homestead Rural Historic District
- Other Names
- Hargreaves Farm; 5PL.24
- Part of
- N/A (Multiple Property Submission)
- Address
- US 385 between Cty. Rds. 10 & 12
- 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 Some information may have become outdated since the property was nominated for the Register.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 Hargreaves Homestead Rural Historic Landscape District is significant for its association with the development of agriculture in Phillips County from its initial development in the 1880s through the introduction of center pivot irrigation in the 1960s. Henry Hargreaves immigrated to Phillips County from Liverpool, England, arriving with the first wave of settlers in the late 1880s. Despite coming from a very different climate, Henry Hargreaves quickly adapted to agriculture on the High Plains, becoming one of the county's leading progressive farmers. Henry Hargreaves acquired his first section of land under the Pre-Emption Act of 1841 (receiving title to the land in 1890} and the second section under the Homestead Act of 1862 (receiving the title in 1895}. Hargreaves grew dryland wheat and raised dairy and beef cows. The Hargreaves Homestead is exceptional for having remained in the same family since the original land acquisition. A prairie fire destroyed all but the house in 1916, but the Hargreaves quickly rebuilt. Typical of midcentury development in Phillips County, additional grain storage and a Quonset hut were added to the farm complex during the late 1940s and 1950s. Reflective of the Hargreaves' history as progressive farmers, they were one of the county's early adopters of the new center pivot irrigation technology, installing a system in 1964. The Hargreaves Homestead Rural Historic Landscape District is locally significant under Criterion A for agriculture for its association with dryland and irrigated farming in Phillips County as well as dairy and beef production for the period 1887-1964. It is also locally significant under Criterion C for architecture as an excellent example of a twentieth century farming complex with farm buildings of a type, period or method of construction representative of the evolution of such complexes in Phillips County between 1900 and circa 1950s.
