The ranch is associated with the early settlement and agricultural development of the Florissant area.  The oldest structures date to the 1875 homesteading of the ranch.  

Adaline Hornbek was one of the early settlers of the region west of Pikes Peak, homesteading the property in 1878.  Located within Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, the house is one of the best surviving examples of domestic log architecture in the Rocky Mountain Region.

The simple one-story wood frame building sits on a rubble stone foundation.  Walls are covered with asphalt siding in a tan brick pattern, and the front gabled roof is steeply pitched. 

Built in 1887, this wood frame rural schoolhouse with an L-shaped floor plan received an addition in 1889.  Its enclosed entry is topped by a bell tower with a pyramidal roof that includes flared eaves.