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Hardeman Barns

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ30624719 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Hardeman Barns, in Wilson in Teton County, Wyoming, were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

The main barn has a Gothic arch shape, and was designed and built by Wesley Bircher.

The barns with 27 acres property were sold to the Teton Raptor Center in 2017.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2015, 2017—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Hardeman, Barns and Open-knowledge.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q30624719. Authority coordinates are 43.498, -110.870. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2015 and 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hardeman Barns” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.