The Historical Atkins-Johnson Farmhouse in Gladstone, Missouri
A museum to explore
There’s a historic house and farm located in Gladstone, Missouri called the Atkins-Johnson Farmhouse Property (also referred to as the Atkins Farm), and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
Items of interest on the property that contribute to it being listed as historic include a root cellar, milk house, and well and pump structure. The original part of the building made of logs was constructed around 1826. In 1853, the home was enlarged.
The Big Shoal Heritage Area is home to Gladstone Missouri’s first historic preservation project. The Atkins-Johnson Farm and Museum and the Big Shoal Cemetery are both located on the east side of Gladstone. The farm sits in a place that was once considered the edge of the American West. (Source.)
The property
The Atkins-Johnson Farmhouse Property is located in Gladstone, Clay County, Missouri. The buildings and farmyard are on two acres. The farmhouse is referred to as an I-House which is a vernacular house type and popular since the colonial period.
The original 1826 log house consisting of two rooms was encased in the larger house built in 1853. On the property is a historic farmyard. The log house was…
