The Walke House

The Walke House, or more accurately the Wallace-James-Walke House, was built as a mansion on the outskirts of the growing young town of Chillicothe, Ohio. The form of the house and the portico indicate the house is in the "Early Classical Revival" style (or Jeffersonian Classicism, or Roman Revival), which is interrelated with the Federal Style. The "Walke House" is now given a initial construction date of sometime between 1812 and 1815, with completion by 1820.

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McCafferty Run Farmstead

The McCafferty Run Farmstead, or Homer and Jenola Ackley Farmstead, was innovatively reconfigured and expanded by Homer Ackley in the mid-twentieth century, on farmland he owned in the Scioto Valley near Chillicothe, Ohio. The "McCafferty Run Farmstead" is a complex consisting of a house with agricultural outbuildings and structures, bounded primarily by a highway on the west and a terrace slope on the east.

In the front center is the farmhouse, and on the left is the primary barn. The 1940 house is a 1-1/2 story Cape Cod house type with a cross gable, forming an entry gable and rear ell. The architectural style is Cottage Tudor. To the north of the house is a "Wisconsin Dairy Barn" in excellent condition built in the summer of 1939. Extant photographs thoroughly illustrate its construction. In the rear of the farmstead is the Granary, in excellent condition, built in the spring and summer of 1939. This idiosyncratic Granary is an unusual mid-twentieth-century farm structure, and was designed by Homer Ackley himself.

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