Watkins Family Farm Historic District

Watkins Family Farm Historic District, also known as Lakeland Farm, is a historic home and farm and national historic district located near Raymore, Cass County, Missouri. The farm includes 18 contributing buildings, three contributing sites, and 21 contributing structures dated between about 1868 and 1957. They include three residential buildings, eight barns, three machine and implement sheds, four wells, ten dams and ponds, and a number of ancillary structures such as a milk house, a pump house, an outhouse, a silo, two corn bins, two chicken coops, three cattle feeder structures, and a cattle loading ramp. The Allen-Watkins Residence was built in 1913, and is a 2 1/2-story, Prairie School style frame dwelling built from the Sears and Roebuck Company prefabricated kit for Sears House Plan #227, "The Castleton."[2]

Watkins Family Farm Historic District
Location19116 S. School Rd., Raymore, Missouri
Coordinates38°46′32″N 94°27′36″W
Area220 acres (89 ha)
Built byWatkins, Charles F. and Charles W.; Allen, George E.
Architectural stylePrairie School
NRHP reference No.07000376[1]
Added to NRHPMay 2, 2007

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.[1]

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