Sugar beets were the cash crop for many families, as is evidenced by the number of Germans from Russia who brought their agricultural mastery of sugar beet farming when they settled in Colorado.  The farm is an architecturally significant collection of early 20th century agricultural outbuildings.  The barn and the simple type of outbuildings are rarely found today on farmsteads due to improvements in agricultural technology.  Many have been replaced by metal prefabricated buildings.