Goll Homestead
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Goll Homestead
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Front of the farmhouse
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| Location | 26093 Township Road F, German Township, Fulton County |
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| Nearest city | Archbold, Ohio |
| Coordinates | 41°33′22″N 84°21′51″W / 41.55611°N 84.36417°WCoordinates: 41°33′22″N 84°21′51″W / 41.55611°N 84.36417°W |
| Area | 2.3 acres (0.93 ha) |
| Built | 1862 |
| Architectural style | Four over four |
| NRHP reference # | 05001185 |
| Added to NRHP | October 26, 2005 |
The Goll Homestead is a historic farm complex in far western Fulton County, Ohio, United States. Located in German Township northwest of Archbold, the farm has been declared a historic site because of its role in the region's settlement.
Before white settlement, Fulton County was a very heavily wooded region. Although most early settlers in this Black Swamp county cleared their lands, Peter Goll, Sr. and his wife Catherine preserved significant areas of virgin woodlands on their property. After immigrating to the United States from France in 1836, the Golls' first home in western Fulton County was a log cabin, approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) east of the present farmstead. As Peter Goll, Jr. grew to adulthood, he married and established a new farmstead; building a new house, he used a distinctively European method of massive timber construction derived from the vernacular architecture of the region's earliest French and German settlers. In 1862, one day before their child was born, Peter, Jr. and his wife moved into the new white wooden house. Soon afterward, his parents also moved into the house; in order to accommodate both households, the structure was built divided into two parts, each accessible by a different front door.
Three years after the house was completed, the Golls erected a barn to shelter their different types of livestock: horses, dairy cows, and possibly pigs. Like the house, the barn employed distinctive construction methods; its structure was based on wooden mortise and tenon construction, with the massive beams being made from oak trees cut on the property. In later years, the barn was modified several times; one of these renovations involved the raising of the entire structure by one story to simplify the keeping of livestock.
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