Black Homestead Farm

	Black Homestead Farm
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	U.S. Historic district
Location	RR 3, Carrollton, Illinois
Coordinates	39°17′37″N 90°26′45″W / 39.29361°N 90.44583°W
Area	123 acres (50 ha)
Built	1823
Architect	Reay, William
Architectural style	Federal, Greek Revival
NRHP reference No.	05000110
Added to NRHP	May 24, 2005

The Black Homestead Farm is a historic farm located west of Carrollton in Greene County, Illinois. Margaret Black, one of the county's first settlers, established the farm in 1821. The farmhouse, built two years later, is the oldest surviving house in Greene County. Architect William Reay designed the brick Federal house, which features a symmetrical plan with evenly spaced windows, an oval fanlight above the original main entrance, and a gable roof with chimneys at each end. A new entrance with a Greek Revival porch was placed on the house in 1855. Other 19th-century farm buildings on the property include a smokehouse, wash house, carriage house, and horse barn. The farm raised livestock and grew grain through the 19th and 20th centuries, as was typical of Greene County farms; it still has active corn and soybean crops.^[2]

The farm was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 24, 2005.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Black, Stephen F. (September 2004). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Margaret Black Farmstead" (PDF). National Park Service. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 19, 2014. Retrieved August 17, 2014.

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[2] Black, Stephen F. (September 2004). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Margaret Black Farmstead" (PDF). National Park Service. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 19, 2014. Retrieved August 17, 2014.

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