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13-401: Mount Oval is a historic farmhouse in the south central part of the U.S. state of Ohio , south of the city of Circleville . Built in the 1830s, it was home to some of the region's more prominent farmers, and it has been named a historic site . The first settler at the site of Mount Oval was John Boggs, who purchased the property from the U.S. government in 1806; the deed for the property

26-1144: A simple rectangular floor plan, usually built with local materials, and included a dominant centrally-located fireplace for cooking and heating. Casa colonica Look for Casa colonica on one of Misplaced Pages's sister projects : [REDACTED] Wiktionary (dictionary) [REDACTED] Wikibooks (textbooks) [REDACTED] Wikiquote (quotations) [REDACTED] Wikisource (library) [REDACTED] Wikiversity (learning resources) [REDACTED] Commons (media) [REDACTED] Wikivoyage (travel guide) [REDACTED] Wikinews (news source) [REDACTED] Wikidata (linked database) [REDACTED] Wikispecies (species directory) Misplaced Pages does not have an article with this exact name. Please search for Casa colonica in Misplaced Pages to check for alternative titles or spellings. You need to log in or create an account and be autoconfirmed to create new articles. Alternatively, you can use

39-586: Is based on the Roman villa found in the Po Valley of northern Italy. A house called Casa colonica  [ it ] in Italy is a type of farmhouse where the residents work the land but do not own the farm. Ta' Tabibu farmhouse and Ta' Xindi Farmhouse are two typical Maltese farmhouses built with the use of Limestone material. In Maltese a farmhouse is called Razzett . Other examples of Maltese farmhouses are

52-519: Is found mainly on the North German Plain , but also in large parts of the Netherlands . It is a large structure with a sweeping roof supported by two to four rows of internal posts. The large barn door at the gable end opens into a spacious hall, or Deele , with cattle stalls and barns on either side and living accommodation at the end. The Middle German house may also be a single unit, but access

65-512: Is from the side, and the roof is supported by the outside walls. Later this type of mitteldeutsches Haus was expanded to two or more buildings around a rectangular farmyard, often with a second story. The South German house is found in southern Germany and has two main variants, the Swabian or Black Forest house and the Bavarian farmstead. A Cascina a corte is a courtyard building whose arrangement

78-562: The Ta' Cisju Farmhouse and The Devil's Farmhouse . Types of farmhouses in North America include the following: Canadian farmhouses were influenced by European settlers. In Quebec , the style varied from Gothic to Swiss, with the kitchen being the most important room in the house. In Ontario , the farmhouses of the late 19th century were of Victorian influence. Earlier ones used clapboard and later variations had brick. Many had front porches. In

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104-511: The Ludwigs rented the property to tenants. Mount Oval itself is a brick building with metal roof and elements of wood and stone. Architecturally, the house is a pure example of the Palladian style of architecture, displaying some elements that are patterned after Villa Capra , a grand Palladian mansion in northern Italy. Among its more distinctive elements is an interior room dedicated to caring for

117-709: The needs of cattlemen ; the Renicks' cattle farming prompted them to construct dedicated facilities within their home. In 1974, Mount Oval was listed on the National Register of Historic Places , along with a single outbuilding ; it qualified for inclusion because of its distinctive historic architecture. More than twenty-five different locations in Pickaway County are listed on the National Register, and Mount Oval achieved this distinction earlier than all but two of

130-596: The others. Farmhouse Types of farmhouses in Europe include the following: A Bresse house ( French : Ferme bressane ) is a type of farmhouse found in the Bresse region and characterized by its long length, brick walls and wooden roof. A Mas is a traditional farmhouse unique to Provence and Southern France . Historically there were three main types of German farmhouses, many of which survive today. The Low German house or Niedersachsenhaus (Lower Saxony house)

143-458: The property until 1832, when William Renick married Jane Boggs and built the present house. During the period that the Renicks owned Mount Oval, it became a prominent center of cattle farming : the Renicks became the first farmers in the region to supply their cattle to the East Coast . Later owners included the families of Bernard Young, Mary Tolbert, and Jacob Ludwig, although for several decades

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156-467: The west, dwellings varied from single-story wooden homesteads to straw huts. Wooden houses were built later as railroads brought wood from the Rockies ( Alberta , British Columbia). By the early 1900s houses could be purchased as kits from several Canadian and American companies. American farmhouses had a straightforward construction designed to function amidst a working farm in a rural setting. They had

169-457: Was signed by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison , at that time President of the United States and United States Secretary of State . Arriving at the property, he discovered extensive evidence of aboriginal occupation at the site: localities such as Chief Cornstalk 's Town, Camps Charlotte and Lewis, Grenadier Squaw Town, and Logan Elm were all near Boggs' new property. Boggs remained on

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