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1900 West 15th Street, Plano, Texas 75075 / Office: 972-881-0140 Fax: 972-422-6481

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1. The Orientation Center / Media Room and Library - The entrance where visitors are welcomed with a media presentation of historical background and interest, prior to a tour. Back to the map.

2. Staff Office - Back to the map.

3. The Parlor Garden - The re-creation of an old-fashioned flower garden, where heirloom roses and perennials present almost year-round beauty. Back to the map.

4. The Farmhouse - An excellent example of a late Victorian shingled gable farmhouse in its original 1891 color scheme. With encircling verandas and carpenter details, its fourteen rooms are furnished in turn-of-the-century style with many original family pieces. Back to the map

5. The Potting Shed & Root Cellar - A fascinating octagonal garden structure used to start seedlings and cuttings and store the season's produce and garden implements. Back to the map.

The Potting Shed

6. The Smokehouse - An outbuilding illustrating methods of curing home-raised and butchered hogs and other meats. Back to the map.

7. The Livestock Area - A series of barns and fences used to house the variety of sheep and hogs, horses, mules, and cows that populated the typical farm. Back to the map.

8. The Orchards - A common feature on North Texas farms that provided sweet variety to the diet throughout the year. Back to the map.

9. The Pole Barn - A solid structure formed by poles of ancient bois d'arc trees and used since before 1900 to store wagons, feed, hay, and equipment. It now provides a unique outdoor meeting place for private and community events. Back to the map

10. The Vegetable Garden - A 1/4 acre plot near the dooryard and water tank which, when properly managed, would provide a family of six with a year's worth of fresh produce. Back to the map.

Insofar as possible, our kitchen garden grows heirloom vegetables and herbs. Some of the heirloom plants we grow here include lima beans imported from Lima, Peru, to England in 1830 and arrived in the United States as Jackson Wonder Beans about 1888; Stowell's Evergreen corn, the original white sweet corn introduced in the 1840's; and Clemson Spineless okra which arrived in the Southern states on slave ships from Africa in the late 17th century. Back to the map

Scarecrow in the Garden

11. The Henhouse - Public Restrooms - Modern necessities for Ladies & Gentlemen, adapted from old henhouses. Back to the map.

12. The Windmill - A 1905 open-geared Aeromotor and an example of a late 19th century invention that helped farmers conquer the American West. Without a way to pump and store the precious resource of water, farming would have been impossible. Here the native grapevines provide a shady arbor for benches and the public water fountains. Back to the map.

13. The Foreman's Cottage: Staff Office - Originally a two-room house built somewhat later than the Farrell home and enlarged in the late 1940s, this is a typical home of the families that often lived and managed large farms. The house now serves as the Museum's offices. Back to the map.

14. The Broodhouse - Another structure used in raising chickens. This little house held a brood of newly hatched chicks, and the chicken yard contained them as they grew into frying size, egg producers, or roosters. Back to the map.

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