Preston Farm
Larimer County
Originally homesteaded by Benjamin and Hessie Preston in 1877, Preston Farm is representative of local agricultural operations and was primarily associated with the history of sheep feeding and the cultivation of alfalfa and sugar beets within the Fort Collins area during a period from 1893 to 1940.
Preston Farm (1906 photograph.)
The property is also important as a rare surviving collection of agricultural buildings and structures reflecting the character of sheep feeding operations in the area. Among the buildings and structures on the site are a large wood frame farmhouse, grain elevator, pump house, hog house, smoke house, chicken house, coal house, ice house, and a machine shop.