Joseph and Rosa Wilson Farmstead
El Paso County
The Joseph and Rosa C. Wilson Farmstead is a good example of one of the few remaining farming complexes in the area that contain the farmhouse, outbuildings, and rural landscape that typified early-twentieth-century agriculture in the region.
Joseph and Rosa Wilson Farmstead (ca. 1919 photograph.)
Built in 1914, the farmhouse is significant as a rare example of the “Westly Modern Home” model kit home available through mail order from the Sears, Roebuck & Co. between 1908 and 1934. The Farmstead also contains a number of agricultural buildings dating from circa 1900 to circa 1980, most dating from around the time of the construction of the farmhouse.