Penn Farm Master Plan

Cedar Hill, Texas
Architexas was selected by the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department to stabilize and restore the historic and deteriorating Penn Farm complex of buildings. Penn Farm includes ten historic buildings, farm equipment, a demonstration field, agricultural features, and walking trails. It represents a turn-of-the-century family farm under continuous use for over 100 years. The team was tasked to assess the farm and to develop a Vision Plan for its future. The assessment developed big picture ideas for the continued preservation and reactivation opportunities for the farm. The restoration scope of work was developed for each structure with specific historic preservation treatment guidance. The types of buildings and their proposed uses (if any) vary wildly from making an 1859 house accessible for interpretive displays to reinforcing a massive 1918 wood framed barn with two smaller and older structures within. Many of the smaller barns and granary buildings were originally a single log crib that received later lean-to additions using modern construction techniques available at the time. The 1879 farmhouse, burned by vandals in the 1980s but reconstructed on the existing foundations, is racking towards a specific point. The plan calls for sustained stewardship of the structures and land through a management structure that allows for reinvestment of funds generated directly back into the historic site.

Services
  • Master Planning
  • Full Architectural Services
  • Assessment
  • Historic Preservation