The Holsten Family Farmstead is located in

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Description

The farm includes an 1889 cream-brick

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farmhouse with

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details, an earlier

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home which has been converted to a

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, a barn with part built pre-1876, a corn crib, chicken coops, other sheds, orchard and gardens. The Holstens helped organize the Springbrook creamery and ice house in 1885, the Columbus Poultry Assoc. in the 1920s, and other community efforts. It was added to the State Register of Historic Places in 1991 and to the

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the following year.

References

{{commonscat, Holsten Family Farmstead Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in Wisconsin National Register of Historic Places in Columbia County, Wisconsin Italianate architecture in Wisconsin Industrial buildings completed in 1889 Houses completed in 1889