Keller House and Derrick


Keller House and Derick
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

The house in June 2020
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Location	E. 1st, North, Paris, Idaho
Coordinates	42°13′43″N 111°23′38″W / 42.22861°N 111.39389°W / 42.22861; -111.39389
Area	2 acres (0.81 ha)
Built	1880
Architectural style	Southern Mountain
MPS	Paris MRA
NRHP reference No.	82001889^[1]
Added to NRHP	November 18, 1982

The Keller House and Derick, on E. 1st, North in Paris, Idaho, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.^[1]

The 14 by 14 feet (4.3 m × 4.3 m) cabin is a square Southern Mountain-style cabin, likely built of logs, covered with shiplap siding. It has a tall gable roof with two gabled dormer windows, and it has a 10 by 10 feet (3.0 m × 3.0 m) ell at the rear.^[2] It is one of 18 small square cabins known in Paris, which are otherwise rare in Idaho.^[2]

Nearby in a field east of the house is "a fine example" of what is called a Mormon derrick which is:

a device of folk technology used until recently throughout the Great Basin to stack loose hay into tall round-topped stacks. The Keller derrick is the Mormon derrick type, distinguished by its quatrepodal base supporting an upright mast, at the top of which pivots a boom. The base is built of three six-by-six timbers, cut on a circular saw, laid over two similar sills and notched with straight-sided saddle notches at the intersections of sill and crosspiece. These joints are fixed with heavy nuts and bolts. Smaller four-by-four timbers form a quatrepod upon this base, securing the heavy central log mast. Balanced at the top of the mast is a log boom, fastened with a pin that allows horizontal and vertical movement. Pulleys, used to control the hoisting and dumping of hay, are attached to the middle and upper end of the boom. A cable stretched along the top of the derrick and over metal and wooden braces probably acts as a brace for the entire boom.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Idaho State Historical Society Inventory for Group Nomination of Historic Resources of Paris: Keller House and Derick". National Park Service. c. 1980. Retrieved January 8, 2020. With accompanying two photos from 1979

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