Powell & Blair Stone Ranch
Logan County
The Powell and Blair Stone Ranch ranch house, built between 1897 and 1898, is representative of the most common version of the American Foursquare, with its simple square plan, low-pitched hipped roof, and symmetrical facade. The house, bunkhouse, and stone outbuilding are significant for their use of locally quarried stone.
Powell & Blair Stone Ranch (2003 photograph.)
William J. Powell and his family were early settlers in Logan County, arriving in the area in the mid-1870s. Powell and his mother-in-law later accomplished two 160-acre homestead claims north of Proctor in 1890 that would become the nucleus of the Powell and Blair Stone Ranch. Stone Ranch was developed between 1895 and 1898 and was considered one of the most modern self-contained and self-maintained ranches in the region at that time.