1. History

2. Nisbet Farm
    Buildings  Structures  Sites 

3. References

History

The homesteaded land was acquired by Matthew Nisbet, who had immigrated from Scotland to Upper Canada in 1818. In 1841 Nisbet came to DeKalb County, Paw Paw Township, and constructed a two-story log cabin, a temporary home he lived in while he built the Old Stone House. The home is constructed of ten-by-four feet blocks of stone; which were hauled from Ottawa, Illinois via ox-cart. Nisbet's home took 15 years to build and has remained in the Nisbet family since its completion.^[2]

Nisbet Farm

The NRHP listing for the Nisbet Homestead Farm consists of 10 contributing "properties" on the {{convert|5|acre|m2}} of land. These various properties are designated as buildings (numbering 5); "structures" (3); and "sites" (2).^[3]

Buildings

Five of the properties on the Nisbet Homestead Farm listing are classified as buildings. This includes the main house, completed in 1863 by Nisbet. Nisbet began construction in 1848 and lived in the log cabin during some of that time. The Greek Revival style home is made of a combination of limestone and weatherboard, and sits on a concrete foundation and has an asphalt roof.^[3] The site's other four "buildings" were all built before 1935. The earliest among these structures, erected pre-1900, is a wooden gable-roofed barn, of the "English" (or "Three Bay") style. The other circa-1900 structure at the Nisbet Farm is a wooden banked barn. After 1909, a tin-roofed storage shed was constructed; and in 1935 the final of the properties building's was erected, a shingled double corn crib.^[3]

Structures

Three of the remaining five properties at the Nisbet Farm are categorized as structures on the NRHP listing. The silo and silo shed were built about 1935.^[3] The other two structures, a gravity feed water storage tank, and a windmill driven well, are part of the NRHP listing. The water tank was constructed with stone walls.^[3]

Sites

The areas at Nisbet Homestead Farm classified as "sites" include the only structure on the property (besides the Greek Revival home) to date back to 1863; and a 1909 constructed building called the "Basement Barn." The log cabin sits on a stone foundation and was constructed sometime before 1863 and after 1848.^[3]

References

• Geoffrey Clegg Hutchinson
• Geoffrey Coles
• Geoffrey Colin Guy
• Geoffrey Connard
• Geoffrey Cornewall
• Geoffrey Corrigan
• Geoffrey, Count of Conversano
• Geoffrey, Count of Ragusa
• Geoffrey Cross, Baron Cross of Chelsea
• Geoffrey Crowther, Baron Crowther
• Geoffrey Cushing-Murray
• Geoffrey C. Ward
• Geoffrey Dabelko
• Geoffrey Darks
• Geoffrey da Silva
• Geoffrey Davion
• Geoffrey Davis
• Geoffrey D. Borman
• Geoffrey D Dabelko
• Geoffrey Dear, Baron Dear
• Geoffrey dearmer award
• Geoffrey Dearmer Award
• Geoffrey de bellaigue
• Geoffrey de Bellaigue
• Geoffrey de Burgh