page_title: Pavelka Farmstead
section_title: Pavelka farmstead
hierarchical_section_title: Pavelka Farmstead / Pavelka farmstead
caption_attribution_description: English: Pavelka farmstead, located southeast of Bladen, Nebraska. View is from the south, along county road 1100.
context_page_description: The Pavelka Farmstead, also known as the Antonia Farmstead, is a house and a group of farm buildings located near Bladen in rural Webster County in south-central Nebraska. The farmstead provided a setting, and its occupants characters, for several of the works of author Willa Cather, who grew up in Webster County.
context_section_description: In 1906, the Pavelkas bought a farm on the Divide, in the northern part of a small region settled by Bohemians.  Soon thereafter, possibly in 1911, they bought a one-story two-room house, probably built in the late 19th century, which they moved from a nearby farm to their own.  By 1915, they had constructed a ​1 ¹⁄₂-story addition on the south side, expanding the house to seven rooms.
  The house lies along the east side of a courtyard centered on the well, delimited by farm buildings and trees.  A large barn with its associated fencing forms the west side.  Smaller sheds and granaries lie along the north and south sides; there are shelterbelts on the south and the north, with the remains of an orchard in the north shelterbelt.  The principal entrance of the house opens into the courtyard rather than toward the road, in keeping with traditional Czech village construction.
  A brick-vaulted cellar, with its entrance southwest of the house, was constructed at some time after the house's expansion.
caption: Pavelka farmstead, viewed from the south along county road 1100
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