Robert Bartlett Farm

Site: V09-86
Municipality: Windsor, VT
Location: Route 5
Site Type: Farm

Bartlett Farm, Route 5 North, c. 1800, Federal style farmhouse.
The Bartlett Farm is one of many farmsteads surrounding the village of Windsor. The Federal style house on the Bartlett farmstead was erected around 1800, and from that point on, barns and outbuildings were added to the site as needed.

The symmetrical facade, hipped roof and end wall chimneys link the farmhouse to the Federal style. Although the windows and doors have been altered, the house remains a fine, intact example of the style. To the east of the house is an efficiently arranged cluster of buildings, including a dairy barn, horse barn, and hen house. The variety of outbuildings is indicative of the diversified nature of farming in Vermont. For example, the large dairy barn to the south of the house was built to house up to 100 cows. During periods that dairying was not profitable, the activity on the farm shifted to include other sources of income, such as raising poultry (a hen house is located north of the house) and growing grain (the dairy barn now serves as storage).

Although commercial development has pushed farms to the periphery of town centers, it has not wiped them from the Vermont landscape. Fortunately, farmsteads, much like the Bartlett Farmstead, remain Vermont's greatest icon.
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Robert Bartlett Farm.
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE:
An excellent example of a farm complex; i.e., house, barns, and outbuildings irregularly grouped together on the east side of U.S. Route 5 between the tracks of the Central Vermont Railroad, which parallel U.S. Route 5 and the Connecticut River. The complex is located on a relatively level stretch of the river valley with expansive open field stretching to the north and to the south.

The house is an excellent example of a 2-1/2 story, wood frame, Federal style I-house with a hip roof and one interior chimney on each end (north and south) elevation. The house was probahly erected in circa 1800.
ADDITIONAL ARCHITECTURAL OR STRUCTURAL DESCRIPTION: None given.
RELATED STRUCTURES: None given.
BUILT: Not given.
REFERENCES: None given.
RECORDED BY: Courtney Fisher, Vt. Div.of Historic Sites. 4/74.
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