The farmstead includes seven contributing buildings: the farmhouse, barns, sheds, workshops, and other accessory structures.

"I wanted to build a Japanese teahouse, but the town doesn't allow an accessory structure without a house," she said.

Any accessory structure needs a site plan filed with the village, and that would include a public phone.

In 2000 it and several accessory structures were listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The cottages and accessory structures lasted another thirty years before becoming uninhabitable.

He said he could envision five-acre lots for each house and its accessory structures like a barn and a garage.

The village cited esthetics and a 1924 ordinance that disallows "accessory structures" in the fronts or sides of lots.

The five accessory structures are a large bar, carriage house, corn crib, prive, and pump house.

However, a section written in 1924 prohibits "accessory structures" in the front half of a lot, where most driveways and baskets are situated.

Various accessory structures, an aqueduct included, have also survived.