Dry Creek Historical Society Dr y Creek Historical Society DRY CREEK TRAIL Rebuilding History Self-Guided Tour

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Individual: $30 Driveway Family: $60 Photographer: $75 Affiliate (Teachers): $25 Sponsor: $100 Schick-Ostolasa Farmstead History Lover: $250 Benefactor: $500 Site Map Additional donation: $______Please walk down the gravel driveway and begin your tour in the Please make checks payable to: front yard of the old white farmhouse. Follow the numbers to each station. Dry Creek Historical Society (DCHS) ADA parking and access to the house 5006 W. Farm Ct. Boise ID 83714 are in the back of the farmhouse. Step back into Idaho’s past Cash donations to this 501(c)(3) R Public restroom (ADA accessible) charitable organization are & explore farm life tax deductible The Farmstead historic site is owned by [email protected] in the late 19th Century... www.DryCreekHistory.org Ada County and managed by 208-229-4006 the Dry Creek Historical Society.

version 18.0805 Schick-Ostolasa 2. Red House The Red House was a Farmstead Tour cook house built over a spring that provided water to the farmhouse. Perishable food like milk was kept cool in the springhouse, reached by stone steps below the Red House. Later a lean-to kitchen was built on the house. Even after the attached kitchen was built, the Red House was used for food preparation such as sausage-making. 3. Root Cellar Root crops and 6. Horse & Dairy Barn canned goods were Dairy cows were kept in one end of the stored in the root barn. Milk was cooled in the spring house 1. Farmhouse cellar, which was and made into butter and cheese. The The farmhouse was built by Philip L. cool in summer and center of the barn was used for livestock Schick in the mid- to late-1860s. It is a warm in winter. It feed and equipment. The other end of the National-style folk house with Italianate was built of stone barn was a stable for saddle horses. touches on the windows and doors, built on and later insulated Large draft horses and wagons were kept a strong sandstone foundation. The by a wall of handmade bricks. fills in the Big Barn nearby (outside the site). , attached with square cut the space between the bricks and stone. 7. Blacksmith Shop Area nails, and many of the glass window panes Newspapers from the 1800s insulate the A blacksmith shop, where metal repairs appear to be original to the house, dating roof. A small wood stove kept food from were made and horses shod, once stood on at least to the late 1800s. freezing in winter. this spot. In the 1950s, lightning struck the The center section of the house may 4. Wood Shed willow tree and a branch fell on the have been built first, with the two-story Wood and coal blacksmith shop, section added later. An ornate balcony to heat the house destroying it. railing once covered the entire second were kept here. story. The front porch has been rebuilt as it The farmhouse 8. Granary & was in late 19-th and early 20th Century does not have Chicken Yard photos, reusing columns and trim from the central heat. It has Poultry and old porch. An attached kitchen was added always been other livestock to the house in 1945. heated with wood, feed was stored in Inside the house, wallpaper was hung coal, or oil stoves. the granary. It is on muslin cloth tacked to rough-cut board all that remains of walls. Small stoves heated each room, 5. Saddle Shed the chicken yard and pigpen area. Two though much of the heat must have been Saddles, tack chicken houses and several pens once lost through the thin walls. and other supplies formed a square yard here. The rooms were lit with candles and for the riding kerosene lamps until electricity was horses were kept in 9. Farm Equipment Area installed in the mid-20th Century. An indoor this shed, right The Farmstead has a small collection bathroom was added in the pantry in the across from the of equipment used on 19th- and early 20th- 1950s. horse barn. Century farms and ranches in Idaho.