Black and white stereoscopic photograph of a Renaissance Revival-style house on the A.T. "Headquarters" Ranch in Wheeler County, Nebraska. The house, a two-story concrete block structure, has a hipped roof with flared eaves, gabled pedimented dormer windowss at the attic level, a porch running the front length of the house, and two large corbelled brick chimneys extending from the roof. Information printed on item: John Nelson, Photographer, Ericson, Nebr. U.S.A.
According the the National Register of Historic Places Registration Form, the concrete blocks for the house, built in 1906, were made on site. Because it was centrally-located on the 40,000+ acre ranch and was used as a post office 1908-1909, the house became known as "The Headquarters." The name Headquaters later "was also used in reference to the A.T. Ranch." Owned by the Allerton-Thompson Cattle Company, the ranch provided cattle for the stockyards owned by Samuel W. Allerton, a millionaire from Chicago. Allerton's nephews, A.C. and Charles Thompson, who managed the ranch, built the house. The ranch acreage was sold off in 1916-1917.
