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Davis House and Barn

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1887. 13066 Logan County 8

Homesteader Hugh Davis's one-and-one-half-story frame dwelling is the oldest house in town. Davis, who arrived in Colorado in 1875, constructed the barn with lumber that had to be freighted across the treeless plains from Sidney, Nebraska.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Thomas J. Noel
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Citation

Thomas J. Noel, "Davis House and Barn", [Merino, Colorado], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/CO-01-LO14.

Print Source

Buildings of Colorado, Thomas J. Noel. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997, 259-259.

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