[Rarebooks] FS: In our new Catalog: 1871 Unusual Ohio Farm for Sale

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

 From our new Catalog 352 -
A Selection of Books & Ephemera for October, 2014.
<http://www.joslinhall.com/Catalog352.pdf>

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Description of Meadow Brook Farm, Near Elgin, Illinois, belonging to 
George S. Bowen, of Chicago Illinois.
Printed in 1871 by the National Live-Stock Journal Press of Chicago.

George Stephen Bowen (1829-1905) was a leading businessman and civic 
leader in Chicago and in Elgin, Illinois, where he kept a summer 
residence. In the case of Meadow Brook Farm, he had offered a silver tea 
service for the best new plan for a modern, efficient dairy barn to 
house 60 cows, and after awarding the prize, constructed the barn, and a 
farm around it, on 400 acres near Elgin. Not being a farmer himself, he 
then offered the entire kit and caboodle for sale through this unusual 
pamphlet.

The text includes a description of the contest and the grand opening 
celebration of the barn, taken from press accounts: "The entertainment 
could not well have been more entertaining. The host was courteous, 
bland, and obliging; the guests were polite, civil and engaging. At a 
late - or was it early? - hour all had departed, leaving an empty barn, 
but carrying with them the liveliest recollections of Mr. Bowen's 
hospitality". There are three plans (front elevation, cellar and first 
floor plans) and well as a lithograph of the handsome structure.

Softcover. 4.75"x7", 23 pages, litho-graphed plate and 3 lithographed 
plans. Minor soil, covers lightly worn, with a short rip in the front 
cover. [41507] $150

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