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Wencl Kajer Farmstead

Historic farmstead in Minnesota, United States

Field	Value
name	Wencl Kajer Farmstead
image	Kajer, Wencl, Farmstead2.JPG
caption	The round barn on the Wencl Kajer Farmstead
alt	A large round barn with a gambrel roof and cupola
locmapin	USA Minnesota#USA
map_alt	A map of Minnesota with a dot in the lower east part of the state
location	6406 County Highway 2, New Market Township, Minnesota
nearest_city	Elko New Market, Minnesota
coordinates
area	4 acre
built	1918–1920
mpsub
refnum	80002166
added	April 17, 1980

The Wencl Kajer Farmstead is a former dairy farm in New Market Township, Minnesota, United States. Situated on a hill with a distinctive round barn built in 1918, the farm was a prominent local landmark. The barn was removed from the property sometime between 2008 and 2017. The principal remaining historic building is the 1920 brick farmhouse. The farmstead was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 for its significance in the themes of agriculture and architecture. It was nominated for being a highly visible representative of dairy farming, the predominant form of agriculture in 20th-century Scott County, Minnesota.

Description

A two-story gabled house with a wraparound porch — The 1920 farmhouse

The Wencl Kajer Farmstead is 2 mi west of Elko New Market, Minnesota, in an agricultural landscape of rolling hills. The farmhouse is a two-story building of brick with a footprint of 26 ft by 36 ft. A porch wraps around two sides. The roof is an intersecting gable with wide eaves. A mid-20th-century garage addition extends off the north end of the house. The round barn was a wood frame structure with a 60 ft diameter. At the time of the National Register nomination, the barn had board and batten siding painted white. The conical roof was a shallow-angled gambrel surmounted by a cupola.

History

Wencl Kajer of New Prague, Minnesota, purchased this land in 1907 and established a dairy farm. He had the round barn built in 1918 and the farmhouse in 1920. Kajer sold the thriving farm to new owners in 1955. They immediately modified the interior of the barn with 33 cow stalls, added a garage to the house and, in the early 1960s, built a feed room and a milk house extending off the barn. The property was still in use as a dairy farm when it was added to the National Register in 1980.

References

{{NRISref. 2010a
Bloomberg, Britta. (July 1979). ["National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Kajer Farmstead"]({{NRHP url). National Park Service.
Leatherberry, Earl C.. "Minnesota, Scott County, Wencl Kajer Round Barn (Gone) (4,014-2)". Flickr.

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