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The Charles Gasham
Jones Farmstead
located at 12601
N.E.
108th Street Jones, Oklahoma
The
town of
Jones was
also named after Charles
Jones.
The above pictures accompanied the
application for
Historical Property.
Application was approved under
category
B--(Property
is associated with the lives of
persons significant in our past)
| The Charles G. Jones
Farmstead is
located within the
town limits of Jones, Oklahoma,
in a
lightly populated
rural setting.
The
surrounding farm and pasture land is
composed of
320
total acres, of which approximately 200
acres is under
cultivation. The
farmstead operation area
emcompasses
8.25 acres,
more or less, and includes a
farmhouse dating to c. 1900, a summer
kitchen, a
storm
shelter, a windmill, a water tank, two silos, a barn, a
corn drying kiln, and a hay barn.
A hog barn,
a horse barn and a
small shed were destroyed in a
grass fire in the 1970's. The
haybarn
is of
recent vintage and is considered
noncontributing. The house
has
been empty for a number of years and has
suffered some damage from
neglect and
vandalishm. It is being
rehabilitated by the current
owners;
non-historic additions and the asbestos
shingle siding are being
removed, exposing the
original wood lap siding. The
farmstead and
the
house still retain a high degree of integrity of
location, setting,
feeling, association, and
design. |
| The Jones Farmstead
follows the
planning concepts common at
the time for placing
structures in
relationship to function. Living
areas and livestock areas were
located according to
the prevailing winds. The barns
and
outbuildings
of the Jones farmstead show this
pattern. Living and
work areas are clustered
upwind of the animal barns. This
area is
known
for
its prevailing southwesterly winds during the spring and
summer
months and this plan would
distribute noise and
odors away from the
house. |
| The house is the
primary building
of the Charles G.
Jones Farmstead. It is a
T-plan
I-house with three
bay facade. The
entry is centered and features a
transom. It
is flanked by
large, 1/1 windows with simple drip
molds and 4"
surrounds. The second floor has
three 1/1 windows. A wide
frieze board
interrupts the lintels. The gable
ends feature a single
1/1 on each
floor. The south gable end's first
floor window is
larger than the others, being the
feature window of the house. The
roof is
side-gabled, with full, pent,
returns. The brick chimney is
offseton the rear ell, and the entire
roof has new
asphalt shingles.
It once had wood
shingles. The foundation is brick,
fired in
Chandler,
and stamped "Chandler, O.T." A full
width porch with flat
roof spans the facade.
The porch has four Tuscan columns.
Changes
include
the addition of asbestos shingle siding, an aluminum
screen door, and a shed roof addition on
the south
side of the ell (since
removed). Interior
materials are intact with minor
modifications
when
plumbing and wiring updated. (Pic. 1
above) |
| The Summer Kitchen
(abt
1900): This small board and
batten building
served a number of
functions. It acted as a
summer Kitchen, a root cellar, and as a
wood
shed.
THe wood shed section on the rear has been removed.
The building features a gabled roof that
cantilevers
over the entrance,
original wood shingles, a brick
chimney and a brick foundation.
The
building
stands just to the north of the main
house. (Pic 2
above) |
| Water Tank (abt 1905)
is located
northwest of the summer
kitchen. This
cylindrical
structure is
constructed of
interlocking, curved clay tile. A
wooden door is on
the south side, giving
access to the area below the
holding
tank. It
is approximately 25' in
height, the upper 18' being the holding
tank.
(Pic.
3
above) |
| Storm Shelter (abt
1910): Located
to the northwest of
the house, this simple structure
consists of a
concrete, barrel arch roof protruding
slightly above grad. a wooden door
allows access to
the shelter. It has poured
concrete walls and
floors. |
| Windmill (abt 1900):
Located east
of the summer kitchen
and north of the house, the
40' tall
windmill tower
still retains the pipes
and
pump it used to fill the water tank
and
provide
water
to the house. The fan and tail have been removed.
(Pic. 1 above) |
| Corn Drying Kiln (abt
1910): The corn drying kiln is a
cylindrical,
riveted steel plate
object used to dry green
corn. It features a tall, metal
flue
centered
in
the flat top and an opening in one side for lading and
unloading corn. It is located in
the pasture
north of the famhouse,
north of the former location
of two burned
barns. |
| Barn (abt
1910): The barn
is located
approximately 550 feet west of the corn
drying kiln. It
is constructed of clay tile on
the side walls, and corrugated metal
over
wood on
the
gable ends. The roof is also sheathed in metal.
The interior supports are untrimmed tree
trunks and
the rafters and
purlins are also roughly finished
logs. It measures 60'X75'.
The attached
corral is made up of auto and truck body
frames welded
together. ID plates
on some of the parts
indicate models
from the
1920's. (Pic. 4
above) |
| Silos (abt 1910):
Located north
of the barn are two clay
tile silos. They are
made of the
same
curved tile as the watertank. Pic.
4 above. |
| Hay Barn (abt 1980)
Noncontributing due to age. Is
used to store
hay
bales. |
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