Brown-Gorman Farm

Eleven miles north of Cincinnati, in the Mill Creek valley community of Evendale, the Brown-Gorman Farm preserves a working farmstead that began around 1835. Its core is a two-story vernacular limestone house, later stuccoed, with a stone kitchen ell added about 1858. A Pennsylvania bank barn from 1835 has a cantilevered forebay and a rare swing beam in its threshing bay, and a south addition was made around 1900-1920. An alfalfa barn of 1911 reflects the Gorman family's early move into alfalfa hay, which they sold to local dairy farmers. Other buildings include a rabbit house, tractor shed, chicken house, corn cribs, springhouses and a fish pond, much of the stonework done by mason Ben Maxfield. Together the resources show how a single family farm modernized over more than a century. The original 99-acre farm is now part of a larger property owned by the Village of Evendale and managed as the Gorman Heritage Farm.