====== Blankenbeker-Riley Farm (BE 396) ====== Located on Hathaway Road, the Blankenbeker-Riley Farm has remained in the same family since the early 19th century. Built by their ancestors, the [[historic homes|house]], domestic outbuildings and [[farming|farm]] buildings have been carefully preserved by their descendants.

The main house was built in 1913 to replace the Blankenbeker family’s original log homestead. It is a massed-plan, pyramidal-roofed frame dwelling with simple Colonial Revival details. The house is set in a remarkably intact rural landscape with historic fences and plantings, a gravel drive, and a series of dependencies. The 200-acre farmstead includes one of the [[boone county|county’s]] finest collections of agricultural outbuildings, dating from the mid-19th through the mid-20th centuries. These include a large transverse-gable stock barn of timber-frame construction, an early-20th-century dairy barn and several frame corncribs. A frame tenant house was built in 1890 for [[african-americans|African-American]] tenants; an early-20th-century addition, which housed white tenants, incorporates wood trim salvaged from the log house. This site was added to the [[National Register]] in 2001. ===== More Information ===== ==== Related websites ==== * National Register Information (PDFs), [[https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/AssetDetail?assetID=c9a37d7c-5242-4748-ba43-219f96d75811|inventory form and photos]]