Restoration! Historic Hutmacher Farm

NDSU Partnership with Preservation North Dakota

Restoration of the historic Hutmacher Farm, in Dunn County, North Dakota, is an ongoing success story wrought by partnership between Preservation North Dakota, the organization that owns the site, and NDSU's Center for Heritage Renewal. Hutmacher Farm is a German-Russian farmstead comprising significant vernacular architecture and historic associations, such that it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Restoration of the the farmstead was galvanized by a grant from the Save America's Treasures program to Preservation North Dakota. Citizen volunteers, most prominently North Dakota State University students, have performed nearly all the intensive labor required for restoration of Hutmacher Farm.

This page devoted to Hutmacher Farm is the beginning of a substantial website that will recount the history of the site, its restoration, and its future prospects. The site currently is open for the public to examine its outstanding historic features, but interpretation is minimal, and full development as a site of heritage tourism awaits.

Restoration of Hutmacher Farm in Full Swing, 2008

Web Resources for Hutmacher Farm

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Preservation North Dakota PND Website Preservation North Dakota, under the leadership of executive director Dale Bentley and a grant from the Save America's Treasures program, initiated the restoration of Hutmacher Farm and owns the site.

North Dakota State University Prairie Earth, Prairie Homes: A Field School Restoration of Hutmacher Farm is a focus of this summer course offered by NDSU. Students, in the course of a study tour of historic earth buildings across western North Dakota, undertake substantial restoration work at Hutmacher.

North Dakota State University The North American Plains Service learning at Hutmacher Farm, taking substantial part in its restoration, is a core feature of this course taught by Prof. Tom Isern at NDSU.

North Dakota State University Google Map Locating Hutmacher Farm Map provided by the NDSU Center for Heritage Renewal.

National Archives Valentin Hutmacher Homestead File Valentin Hutmacher was the original homesteader, across the road east from the Hutmacher farm under restoration. Frank Hutmacher, who with wife Veronica raised a family at Hutmacher Farm, was the son of Valentin and Francis Hutmacher.

North Dakota State University HABS Documentation of Hutmacher Farm NDSU's Germans from Russia Heritage Collection reports the Historic American Buildings Survey documentation of Hutmacher Farm by Prof. Steve Martens of NDSU.

Crocker Ltd. Hutmacher Farm Poster Edward Crocker of Crocker Ltd. was instrumental in devising the work plan for the Hutmacher restoration effort.

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