Marker Inscription
Ethnic Heritage - European, Exploration/Settlement, Science, Architecture
Historic Place
Questad, Carl and Sedsel, Farm
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About this site
Questad, Carl and Sedsel, Farm is a historic place in Clifton, Bosque County, dedicated in 1983. It is one of 35 historic places documented in Bosque County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 131 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 31.7776, -97.6808 near Clifton. The nearest cataloged historic site is Our Savior's Lutheran Church (historical marker), about 0.3 miles away. Others within a short drive include Our Saviors Lutheran Cemetery, Linberg, Eric and Martha, Farm, and Brandhagen Houses.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #2083003119. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
History
The Carl and Sedsel Questad Farm is a rare surviving example of 19th-century Norwegian rock-house construction in the Norse settlement of Bosque County. Carl Questad, a stonemason, blacksmith, and furniture maker who arrived with the early Norwegian families of 1854, built a roughly four-and-a-half-acre complex between about 1855 and 1870 using limestone he quarried nearby and mortar from a lime kiln he built himself. The farm today retains several stone buildings and hundreds of feet of intact dry-stacked stone walls and is considered the only remaining ranch of its type with multiple structures in Texas. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 22, 1983.
Sources: masonrydesignmagazine.comnpgallery.nps.govchambersarchitects.comtshaonline.org
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